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• The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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  Reality, Certainty

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• Life without pain has no meaning.

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  Pain, Without Pain

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• When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.

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  Perfect, Plot, Looks

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• Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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  Argument, Rudeness, Eclipse

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.75, Cosimo, Inc.

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• To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.

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  Mean, Forgive And Forget, Forgiving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.109, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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  Dream, Character, Dreamer

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• We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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  Existentialism, Episodes, Regard

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.299, Oxford University Press

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• The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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  Life, Wisdom, Philosophical

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• Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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  Pain, Believe, Animal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.52, Publishdrive

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• Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

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  Men, Culture, Becoming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

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• The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.

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  Real, Home, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.23, 谷月社

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• A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

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  Men, Thinking, Goal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

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  World, Study, Solace

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• Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

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  Children, Genius, Way

  "The World as Will and Representation". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer (Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451), 1819.

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• The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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  Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

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• The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Opposites

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• Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

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  Children, Reality, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.63, Full Moon Publications

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• Each day is a little life.

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  Each Day, Littles

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.

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  Funny, Dog, Moving

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• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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  Philosophical, Reading, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.494, Oxford University Press

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

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

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• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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  War, Men, Pessimism

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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  Pain, Blessing, Swings

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.66, Publishdrive

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• Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.26, Publishdrive

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• With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.

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  Important, Elements, May

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