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• ...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Individual, Life Or Death

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• In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

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  Reading, Mind, Facts

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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  Philosophical, Fate, Gambling

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• There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

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  Friends, Humility, Men

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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  Perfection, Pessimism, Defects

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “On Human Nature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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  Children, World, Genius

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• The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.

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  Writing, Style, Firsts

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• Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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  Book, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.

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  Happiness And Love, Cash, Notes

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• In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

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  Hate, Virtue, Cases

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• Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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  Philosophical, Hands, Newspapers

  Arthur Schopenhauer, Ernest Belfort Bax (1891). “Selected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: With Biographical Introduction and Sketch of His Philosophy”

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• The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning.

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  Men, Thinking, Light

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1910). “The Art of Literature: a Series of Essays in Arthur Schopenhauer...”

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• The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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  Learning, Numbers, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.45, 谷月社

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• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

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  Children, Math, Maturity

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• A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.

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  Reality, Boredom, Needs

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by E. Payne, Vol. 1, p. 345, 1974.

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• There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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  Self, Three, Firsts

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• Authority and example lead the world.

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  Example, World, Authority

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• For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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  Dark, Shining, Worms

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.46, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.

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  Honesty, Writing, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.22, 谷月社

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• Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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  Boredom, Fascination, Sides

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• Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

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  Light, Precious Stones, Genius

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• The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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  Art, Achievement, Mind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.69, Cosimo Classics

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• Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

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  Chemistry, Faithfulness, Persons

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• That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

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  Moon, Frozen, Ladders

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.293, Cambridge University Press

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• Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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  Real, Two, Different

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.40, Kshetra Books

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