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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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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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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.
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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.
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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
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