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• The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Music, Art, Powerful

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suicide, Nature, Suicidal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Men, Growth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.37, Publishdrive

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• Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Confusion, Desire, Probability

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.32, Publishdrive

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• Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Doe, Cost, Life Is

  "The World as Will and Representation, Volume II (On the Vanity and Suffering of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1819.

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• Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Events, Essentials

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sacrifice, Men, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.94, Publishdrive

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• It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

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• What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Positive, Happiness, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• The deep pain that is felt
  at the death of every friendly soul
  arises from the feeling that there is
  in every individual something
  which is inexpressible,
  peculiar to him alone,
  and is, therefore,
  absolutely and irretrievably lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, Death, Pain

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.585, Oxford University Press

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• It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wise, Stupid, Fire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Learned Person, Cases

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.28, 谷月社

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• The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
  it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Selfish, Men, Who Cares

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.81, Full Moon Publications

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• Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish, Desire, Satisfaction

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

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• Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Intensity, Intellect, Magnitude

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• A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Interesting, Mouths

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 29, § 377, 2007.

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Listening

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Suffering, Glitter, Human Life

  Arthur Schopenhauer (1958). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.325, Courier Corporation

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• Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Motivational, Being Strong

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• Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Book, Dry Up, Way

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Birthday, Philosophical, Years

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• To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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• For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Motivation, Compassion, Effort

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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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Night, Space, Torches

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.185, Courier Corporation

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• I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Saws, Admiration, Absurd

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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