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• When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.

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  Self, World, Firsts

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• The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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  Communication, Philosophical, Men

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 25, sect. 298, 1851.

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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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  Character, Men, Personality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.2, 谷月社

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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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  Moving, Hands, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “Essays and Aphorisms”, p.119, Penguin UK

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• When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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  Believe, Men, Wish

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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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  True Life, Way, Language

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• To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

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  Errors, Forever, Desire

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

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  Religion, Mass, Metaphysics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.

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  Photography, People, Looks

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• I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

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  Plato, Writing, Development

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.417, Courier Corporation

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• Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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  Animal, Firsts, First Time

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.99, Publishdrive

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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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  Success, Time, Men

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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  Mean, Reality, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.43, 谷月社

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• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

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  Mean, Eye, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.

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  Sleep, Men, Clock

  "Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer".

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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  Years, People, Giving

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• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

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  Men, Europe, Answers

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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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  Change, Happiness, Growth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

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  Money, Philosophical, Riches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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  Animal, Anxiety, Consciousness

  "On the Suffering of the World". As translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

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  Intellectual, Connections, Passionate

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• In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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  Wisdom, Philosophical, Heart

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• Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

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  Love, Religious, Hatred

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• If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

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  Disappointment, Light, Sight

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Hate, Men, Energy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

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