Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Suicide Quotes, Nature Quotes

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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

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I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away. He replied, "Yes! because the absent friend is yourself, and he exists only in your head; whereas the friend who is present has an individuality of his own, and moves according to laws of his own, which cannot always be in accordance with those which you form for yourself.

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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

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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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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

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

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

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