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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Light, Sight

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

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• Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

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  Feet, Air, Support

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Mind, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Giving, Watches

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.450, Oxford University Press

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• The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Not Giving Up, Never Giving Up

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• It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Success, Time

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• Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Reality, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Hands, Soul

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Regret, Missing, Enemy

  "Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 26, sect. 311a, 1851.

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• The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

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  Life, Beautiful, Distance

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.33, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, May, Meteors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.53, 谷月社

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• To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Judging, First Impression

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• It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Powerful, Space

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.22, Full Moon Publications

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• It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their youth show only the first traces of it.

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  Men, Expression, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a pond of still water, lying there like a mirror, there is no sign of the roar and thunder with which it can leap from the precipice, and yet remain what it is; or again, rise high in the air as a fountain. When water is as cold as ice, you can have no idea of the latent warmth contained in it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Mirrors, Air

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.30, 谷月社

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• The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. . . Time is that by virtue of which everything becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.

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  Real, Frustration, Vanity

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• Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Appreciation, Pride, Oneself

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays".

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• Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Squares, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2009). “The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• Motives are causes experienced from within.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Causes, Motive

  Bryan Magee, Arthur Schopenhauer (1983). “The Philosophy of Schopenhauer”, Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press

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• The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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  Laughter, Philosophy, Real

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• Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Night, Giving, Black

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.68, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Machines, Facts, Arithmetic

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.145, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Independence, World, Results

  "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations" edited Suzy Platt, Library of Congress, (p. 227), 1993.

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• One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forget Everything, Forget, Oneself

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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• Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Destiny, Genius, Unfaithful

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1966). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.386, Courier Corporation

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