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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
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Quiet
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind.
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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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