Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Short Life Quotes, Men Quotes

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

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Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

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One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.

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

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Scoundrels are always sociable.

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The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

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Human life must be some form of mistake.

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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

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Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.

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The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

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We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the exception. The first are original thinkers in a double sense, and egotists in the noblest meaning of the word.

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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

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He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the town in which he lives are wrong. He alone knows the right time; what use is that to him?

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I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

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