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• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stars, Rocks, Hands

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 (Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by E. Payne, 1974.

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• The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Artist, Men, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use
  of the book of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.83, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Memories, Glasses

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

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• Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Conviction, Genuine

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by T. Bailey Saunders (Volume 2, Chapter 24, § 324), 1851.

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• ...this our world, which is so real, with all its suns and milky ways is-nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Our World, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.269, Kshetra Books

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• Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Wonder

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• [T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Addresses, Form

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Riches

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

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• A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Men, Years

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

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• Unrest is the mark of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Unrest, Mark, Existence

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

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• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicidal, Answers, Consciousness

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Mean, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Giving, Wish

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

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• Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Interest, Subjective

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.99, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Perfection, Turns

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• Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Jealous, Hands, Religion

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.358, Oxford University Press

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• A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Men, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.107, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Profound, Answers

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Distance, Past, Law

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Mean, Men

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

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• What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Solitude

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

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• History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Confused, Long

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• Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Blessing, Boredom, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.11, Penguin UK

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