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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.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else hence there is no ethics.
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
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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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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
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Honor has not to be won it must only not be lost.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things
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