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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.
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I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
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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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It is a clumsy experiment to make for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation on that works, a great head.
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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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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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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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
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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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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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