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...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.
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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.
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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.
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Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else hence there is no ethics.
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
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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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Human life must be some form of mistake.
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A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
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If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we should be laughed at.
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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.
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Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
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The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
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It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
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Everything that happens, happens of necessity.
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