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• A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Thinking, Should Have

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

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• If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, World, Want

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• Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Men, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.6, Penguin UK

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• The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed to memory the utmost are and forethought must be exercised; as lessons well learnt in youth are never forgotten.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Memories, Lessons, Youth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, World, Reason

  "The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. I, §68, 1819.

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• Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Powerful, Voice, Miracle

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• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Oedipus, Faces, Philosopher

  Arthur Schopenhauer's letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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• To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, Long, Innovation

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• We should comfort ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages-stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Waiting, Comfort

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• The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Light, Childhood

  "Parerga und Paralipomena II". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Chapter XXIV, 1851.

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• The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Honesty, Philosophy, Farewell

  "Parerga and Paralipomena" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. 1, (p. 22), 1974.

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• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Heart, Fate

  Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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• Not to go to the theater is like making one's toilet without a mirror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mirrors, Toilets, Theater

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1902*). “Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: Selected and Translated by T. Bailey Saunders”

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• I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  People, Metaphysics

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• A hedge between keeps friendship green.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Green

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• The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Running, Animal, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1951). “Essays from the Parerga and Paralipomena”

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• We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely disregarded by philosophers, and lies before us as raw and untreated material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Lying, Men, Play

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.532, Courier Corporation

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• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• [T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Rights, Europe

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• Descartes is rightly regarded as the father of modern philosophy primarily and generally because he helped the faculty of reason to stand on its own feet by teaching men to use their brains
  in place whereof the Bible, on the one hand, and Aristotle, on the other, had previously served.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Father, Philosophy, Teaching

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Thinking, Buying

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