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

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Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.

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Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

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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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Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

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The world is my representation

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Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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If the lives of men were relieved of all need, hardship and adversity; if everything they took in hand were successful, they would be so swollen with arrogance that, though they might not burst, they would present the spectacle of unbridled folly-nay, they would go mad. And I may say, further, that a certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without ballast is unstable and will not go straight.

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Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

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Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.

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

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For our improvement we need a mirror.

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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

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