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It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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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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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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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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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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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.
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No one can transcend their own individuality.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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