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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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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.

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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.

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The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.

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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.

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Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

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Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much longer duration; but the third are unchangeable, possess their own light, and work for all time.

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

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To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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