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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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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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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
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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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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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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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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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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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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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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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