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A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.
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Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
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Unrest is the mark of existence.
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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
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Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
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That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Pride works _from within_ it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.
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