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• Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Men, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.98, Publishdrive

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Watches, Letters

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• In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Mean, Blessing

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Differences, Thinker

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• If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation, that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, People, Honor

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hurt, Acceptance, Rejection

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.62, Publishdrive

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• Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, World, Stuff

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Certain, Mankind, Absurdity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

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• In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Marriage, Mean, Rights

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 27, § 370, 2007.

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• No one can transcend their own individuality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Individuality

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Science, Power, Errors

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 17, 2007.

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• (Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Agreement, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.64, 谷月社

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• Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Giving, Style, Currency

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Law, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Essence, Two

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• Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  True Life, Life Is, Understood

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• The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Police, Half, Beard

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Knowledge, Library, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.71, Penguin UK

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• Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Thinking, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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  Strong, Twilight, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

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• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Honesty, Hypocrite

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• As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Hands, Library

  "Counsels and Maxims". Vol. 2, Ch. 22, § 257 "On Thinking for Yourself" as translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Business, Men, Deceiving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.47, Full Moon Publications

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Men, Desire

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• Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Needs, Satisfaction, Abstract

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.33, Cosimo Classics

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