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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Age: 72 †
Born: 1788
Born: February 22
Died: 1860
Died: September 21
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome to be got over.
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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.
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Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness everything else is just a promissory note.
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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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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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To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
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If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones for life is short, and time and energy limited.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.
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Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what we compare it to - better and we envious and sad, worse and we feel grateful and happy.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
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