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• A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happy Life, Men, Heroic

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.322, Oxford University Press

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• Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Fall, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.584, Courier Corporation

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• It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Keeping Quiet, Quiet, Difficult

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.31, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Money, Philosophical, Winning

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

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• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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  Anger, Philosophical, Heart

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

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

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• If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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  Heart, World, Misery

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• Life is a constant process of dying.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Dying, Life Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.40, Publishdrive

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• Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Education, Teacher, Learning

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• Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Pessimism

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

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• There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wiser

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• For our improvement we need a mirror.

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  Mirrors, Needs, Improvement

  "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851.

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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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• The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Pigs, Tree

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• Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Spiritual, Atheist, Firefly

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• The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Happy, Pain

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• A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

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  Philosophy, Men, Philosopher

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.41, 谷月社

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Errors, Elderly

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Love, Freedom, Solitude

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• Compassion is the basis of morality.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Forgiveness, Wise, Ignorance

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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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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Genius, Way

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

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• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Speak

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