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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Loss, Perfection, Individuality

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.32, Full Moon Publications

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Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and tricks there five hundred years ago will think whatever he likes of me, but it is a stranger form of madness to imagine that the present-day cat is fundamentally an entirely different one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Cat, Thinking, Years

"The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Pages, Hegel

"Schopenhauer: A Biography" by David E. Cartwright, Cambridge University Press, (p. 177), March 29, 2010.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Writing, Opposites, Giving

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Writing, Doe, Importance

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.21, 谷月社

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Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Exercise, Men, Vices

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty

"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Burden, Old Woman, Dies

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

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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Second Chance, Hands, History

"Counsels and Maxims" by Arthur Schopenhauer, vol. 2, ch. 19, § 233, 1851.

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To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Men, Errors, Giving

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, First Impression, Encounters

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Children, Views, Ideas

Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

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Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Men, Astrology, Heaven

"Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Confidence, Men, Clothes

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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Eye, Men, Errors

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

World, Death Penalty, Hell

"The World as Will and Idea".

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Beautiful, Art, Honesty

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Children, Play, Waiting

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Healing, Giving, Pills

"Neue Paralipomena (New Paralipomena)". Essay by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1893.

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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

Arthur Schopenhauer

Book, Unique, Hands

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The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Art, Law, Simplicity

Arthur Schopenhauer “The Selected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer”, Library of Alexandria

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What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Men, Ice, Rocks

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No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Doubt, Fool, Modesty

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

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You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and absolutely nothing other than that one thing.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Moments, Given, Absolutely Nothing

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Essay on the Freedom of the Will”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Race, Europe, Roots

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.357, Courier Corporation

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Born: February 22, 1788
Died: September 21, 1860
Occupation: Philosopher
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