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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.
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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
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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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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.
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Motives are causes experienced from within.
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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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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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect the second have a much longer duration but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.
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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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Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.
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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
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