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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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A word too much always defeats its purpose.
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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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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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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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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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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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Animals learn death first at the moment of death...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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