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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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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

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Motives are causes experienced from within.

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The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

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The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

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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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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

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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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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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Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

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

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For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

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Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

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Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.

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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.

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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

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