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Arthur Schopenhauer


German
February 22, 1788
Philosopher
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Compassion is the basis of morality.


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Music is the melody whose text is the world.


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A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.


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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.


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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.


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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.


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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.


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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.


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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.


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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.


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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.


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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.


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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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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
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