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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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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.
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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
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I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog and I have similar experiences with mankind.
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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
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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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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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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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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
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If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.
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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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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
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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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The young should early be trained to bear being left alone for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
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