Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Birthday Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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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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The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

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Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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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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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

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Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.

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Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

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In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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