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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
Musicologist
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
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Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
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A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.
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