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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Errors, Years, Confusion

"The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mean, Men, People

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music, Wisdom, Philosophical

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.55, Publishdrive

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It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Looks, May, Way

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.102, 谷月社

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For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mean, Humility, Men

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Giving, Sublime, World

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.86, Publishdrive

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Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Labyrinth, Lightning, Obscurity

1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.15 (translated by E F J Payne).

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Strong, Men, Two

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation

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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Men, Love Hate, World

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

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Purpose, Too Much, Defeat

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

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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wish, Can Do

Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer by Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" in The Saturday Evening Post (p. 114), October 26, 1929.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Squash, World, Bugs

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Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy, Teaching, Character

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 3 of 3)”, p.98, Kshetra Books

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The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mother, Children, Thinking

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.77, Publishdrive

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Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

Arthur Schopenhauer

Want

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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Sex, Men, Race

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.124, Arthur Schopenhauer

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy, Example, Purpose

"Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 347, 1974.

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In youth it is the outward aspect of things that most engages us; while in age, thought or reflection is the predominating qualityof the mind. Hence, youth is the time for poetry, and age is more inclined to philosophy. In practical affairs it is the same: a man shapes his resolutions in youth more by the impression that the outward world makes upon him; whereas, when he is old, it is thought that determines his actions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy, Men, Reflection

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.93, 谷月社

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...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Art, Doe, Lapses

Arthur Schopenhauer (1950). “The World as Will and Idea”

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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.

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Frustration, Men, Order

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to
them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Writing, Two, Firsts

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

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We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and
willingly give up life itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Giving Up, Men, Long

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.253, Courier Corporation

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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Sea, Water, Wealth

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As a general rule, the longer a man's fame is likely to last, the later it will be in coming; for all excellent products require time for their development.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Men, Lasts

"The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims".

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Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy, Given, Conclusion

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.106, Oxford University Press

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