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• Life without pain has no meaning.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Without Pain

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Greatness, Men

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

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  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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• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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  Inspirational, Science, Men

  Studies in Pessimism "Psychological Observations" (1851) (translation by T. Bailey Saunders)

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

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Knowledge

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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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• 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.

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  Religious, War, Native American

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

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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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• In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

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  Heart, Men, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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  Philosophical, Adversity, Doubt

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.4, Full Moon Publications

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Blessing, Swings

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

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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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• Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

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  Mean, Vexation, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.85, 谷月社

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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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• 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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• There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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  Men, Opinion, Global Warming

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Controversy”, p.56, Arthur Schopenhauer

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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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• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

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  Inspirational, Pain, Philosophical

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• The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they appear so big, so important, so serious; but as soon as they are borne down the restless stream of time they lose what significance they had; we think no more of them and soon forget them altogether. They were big only because they were near.

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  Passion, Thinking, Long

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

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• The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Character, Tragedy, Details

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.211, Kshetra Books

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• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

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  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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