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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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The world is my representation
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
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Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.
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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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Mensch kann tun was er will er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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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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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
