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• there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Winning, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.95, Publishdrive

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• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Morning, Looks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.34, 谷月社

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• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, World, Language

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.26, 谷月社

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• At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fall, Opportunity, Politics

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.243, Oxford University Press

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• How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Latin, Book, Soul

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• Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.

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  Art, Ideas, Musician

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• The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Two, Three

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• Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Pain, Philosophical

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

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• At the age of five years to enter a spinning-cotton or other factory, and from that time forth to sit there daily, first ten, then twelve, and ultimately fourteen hours, performing the same mechanical labour, is to purchase dearly the satisfaction of drawing breath. But this is the fate of millions, and that of millions more is analogous to it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Drawing, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (1819), as translated by R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp in "The World as Will and Idea" (p. 389), 1886.

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• alent is like the marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Target, Genius, Talent

  "The World as Will and Representation".

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• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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  Brain, Body, May

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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  Life, Eye, Equality

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• Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Evil, World

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 348), 1974.

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• Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Library, Research, Management

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.491, Oxford University Press

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• The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Results, Contact

  "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (The Wisdom of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, 1851.

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• Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

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  Unions, Facts, Quitting

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

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• The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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  Mystery, Pessimism, Inexplicable

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

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• All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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  Suffering, Needs, Free Will

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• A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spring, Moving, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Literature”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish, Begets

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• All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, World, Ethics

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Courage, Animal, People

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• The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mother, Art, Father

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