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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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To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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The first forty years of life give us the text the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.
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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
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The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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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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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
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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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