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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
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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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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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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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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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