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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.
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The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional fame, that he is.
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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.
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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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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
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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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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
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