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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
Musicologist
Philosopher
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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Reason is feminine in nature it can only give after it has received.
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To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
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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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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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A happy life is impos­si­ble the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
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Talent works for money and fame the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
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