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Every genius is a great child he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.
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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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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
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There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.
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Life is a business that does not cover the costs.
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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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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
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Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
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Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.
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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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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.
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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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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
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