Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Heart Quotes, Men Quotes

A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.

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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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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

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The world is my representation

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The problem with Germans is that they look in the clouds for what lies at their feet.

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In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

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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.

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

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Life is a constant process of dying.

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the brut first knows death when it dies, but man draws consciously nearer to it every hour that he lives; and this makes his life at times a questionable good even to him who has not recognised this character of constant anaihilation in the whole of life.

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Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

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

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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

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There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

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