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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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• 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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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Expression, Intellectual

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

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Wonder

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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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Character, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

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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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• 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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• 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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• Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Evil, Joy

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.4, 谷月社

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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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• 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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