Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Boredom Quotes, Fascination Quotes

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

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The word of man is the most durable of all material.

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Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

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What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

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Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

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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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We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.

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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.

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

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To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.

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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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A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

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Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

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A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

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A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

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To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world

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When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what he wishes to happen never will be, this is really the state called desperation.

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