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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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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight a woman at eighteen.
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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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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.
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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
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What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.
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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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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
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How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
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The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
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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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Rudeness is better than any argument it totally eclipses intellect.
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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
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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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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.
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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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