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People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

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The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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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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A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he, as an individual, is capable of bringing it, when an exact correspondence is established between the whole of his abstract ideas and the things he has actually perceived for himself. His will mean that each of his abstract ideas rests, directly or indirectly, upon a basis of observation, which alone endows it with any real value; and also that he is able to place every observation he makes under the right abstract idea which belongs to it.

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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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All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

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

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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

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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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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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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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