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A German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the four separate manifestations of reason in the phenomenal world.Here are some famous quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Compassion is the basis of all morality.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract.
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Time is that in which all things pass away.
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Change alone is eternal perpetual immortal.
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Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
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A man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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Not to go to the theatre is like making one's toilet without a mirror.
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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
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Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the business man.
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Fame is something which must be won; honour is something which must not be lost.
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Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes ennui of the higher ones.
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It is in trifles and when he is off his guard that a man best shows his character.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
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The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.
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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
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Gaiety alone as it were is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
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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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Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.
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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
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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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We should comport ourselves with the masterpieces of art as with exalted personages - stand quietly before them and wait till they speak to us.
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Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
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The 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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Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present does it not tell us what the future will be?
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Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed in the second it is opposed in the third it is regarded as self-evident.
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(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects whether moral or intellectual shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
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In early youth as we contemplate our coming life we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.
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Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else and run away even before he comes near them the fly lights upon his very nose.
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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.'