Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Past Quotes

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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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.

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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates a feeling of uncertainty over his life, even for him who forgets in the business of life that annihilation is awaiting him. It is for this reason chiefly that we have philosophy and religion.

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I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

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If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.

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In many cases hate a person is rooted in the involuntary estimate of its virtues.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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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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There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

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It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do

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The beard, being a half-mask, should be forbidden by the police - It is, moreover, as a sexual symbol in the middle of the face, obscene: that is why it pleases women.

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Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose what to do, but not what to want.)

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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.

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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

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Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

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