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• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Fool, Foolish

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• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Mean, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.479, Oxford University Press

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• Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Intelligent, World Suffering

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.30, Cosimo Classics

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• Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Noise, Pessimism, Form

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody's friend is nobody's.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Relationship

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• Truth is most beautiful undraped.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Truth Is

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.351, Simon and Schuster

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• Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  World, Affection, Remember

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• A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Short Life, Men, Order

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• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Motivation, Compassion, Effort

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• If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, Men, Race

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

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

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• There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Errors, Order

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.49 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish, Desire, Satisfaction

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Trouble, Hours

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• To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Real, Expression, Ideas

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.159, Oxford University Press

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• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Greatness, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Controversy”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Mean, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Happiness, Mistake

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.35, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depressing, Errors, Today

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• This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sight, Order, Suffering

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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• A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Should, Clear

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.20, 谷月社

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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Men, People

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• To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Fate, Two, Evil

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.29, Full Moon Publications

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• Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Cost, Life Is

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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