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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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There is only one healing force, and that is nature in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
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We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.
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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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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
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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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Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head.
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Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
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