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• There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Loneliness, Men, People

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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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• Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Liberty, Libertarian

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• This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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  Sight, Order, Suffering

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• Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Passion, Fool, Foolish

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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• Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Inspirational, Character, Men

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• Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Atheism, Pantheism, Form

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• Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, People, Intellectual

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.341, Oxford University Press

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Good Morning, Death

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, Understanding, Promise

  "The World as Will and Idea".

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• One should use common words to say uncommon things

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Writing, Use, Common

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (illustrated)”, p.30, Full Moon Publications

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• Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Mean, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.479, Oxford University Press

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• No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.

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  Mistake, Mean, Progress

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.17, 谷月社

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• Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Greatness, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Controversy”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Clever, Stupid, Quality

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

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  Dream, Depressing, People

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.31, Publishdrive

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• That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mistake, Simple, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Pet, Helpful

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• There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Errors, Order

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.49 (translated by E F J Payne).

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Death, Believe, Men

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• The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Solitude, Mind, Bears

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Disappointment, Errors, Elderly

  "The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. II, (1819; 1844; 1859).

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• Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hallmark, Existence, Restlessness

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• Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Philosophical, Entrepreneur

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

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