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• What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

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  Positive, Happiness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

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  Teaching, Philosophical, Learning

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• The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.

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  Dream, Reality, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

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  Inward, Honour, Conscience

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

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  Men, Interesting, Mouths

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 2007.

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• The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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  Able, Pessimism, Bad Things

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion: a Dialogue”, p.132, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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  Memories, Good Day, Bad Day

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

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  Letting Go, Past, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.53, Publishdrive

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• The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

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  Long, Waiting, Long Life

  "Willen in der Natur". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, chapter 'Einleitung', 1836.

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• Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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  Boys, World, Foolish

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• It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.

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  Freedom, Men

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• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

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  Saws, Admiration, Absurd

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

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  Education, Teacher, Trying

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• This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

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  Stupid, Learned Person, Cases

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.28, 谷月社

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• Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

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  Eye, Effort, Wicked

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

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• I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

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  Believe, Men, Growth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.37, Publishdrive

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• Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

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  Reading, Thinking, Mere

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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• Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

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  Fall, Men, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.

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  Friendship, Best Friend, Networking

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• Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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  Book, Dry Up, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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• Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

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  Certain, Existence

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• Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

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  Christian, Horse, Struggle

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• What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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  Stupid, Fate, People

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

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• A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

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  Men, Free Will, Determine

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