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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
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Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.
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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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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
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Every genius is a great child he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
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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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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
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