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• Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Book, Years

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

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• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Anger, Philosophical, Heart

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, Oxford University Press

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• We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Views, Numbers, Errors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.22, Publishdrive

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• Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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  Morning, Silly, Sleep

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

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• Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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  Pride, Racism, Teeth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

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  Inspirational, Self, Ephemeral

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• Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Different, Genius, World

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• Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Thinking, Tasks

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.24, Publishdrive

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  After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Suicide, Philosophical

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press

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• If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

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  Lying, Believe, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.464, Oxford University Press

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• Scoundrels are always sociable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Scoundrels, Human Condition, Sociable

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• A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intelligent, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1988). “Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes: Berlin manuscripts (1818-1830)”, Berg Publishers

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• Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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  Relationship, Sympathy, Money

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.54, Publishdrive

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• If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Reading, Thinking

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• The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Religious, War, Native American

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

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  Pain, War, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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  Wisdom, May, Being The Best

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.46, Publishdrive

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• Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

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  Sleep, Life Is, Loan

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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  God, Funny Life, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.25, Publishdrive

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• We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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• A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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  Being Alone, Men, Alone Man

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.19, 谷月社

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• Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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  Men, Thinking, Strive

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.20, Full Moon Publications

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• To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Overcoming, Delight, Coping

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.39, Full Moon Publications

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• To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Men, Genius

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Envy, Feels, Savour

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