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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
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 first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
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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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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won honor, only something which must not be lost.
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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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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
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