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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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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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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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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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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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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.
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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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With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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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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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 truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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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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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.
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