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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.
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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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Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
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With health, everything is a source of pleasure without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.
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A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
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Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
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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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The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
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A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
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