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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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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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That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
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Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
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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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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
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Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.
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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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For our improvement we need a mirror.
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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
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Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.
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Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
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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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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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