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Arthur Schopenhauer  Quotes
Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell’umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant’anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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MisanthropyPhilosophy
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties

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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Assim, logo que nosso pensamento encontrou palavras, ele já deixa de ser algo íntimo, algo sério no nível mais profundo. Quando ele começa a existir para os outros, para de viver em nós, da mesma...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Inspirational
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It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Bei Abwesenheit großer Leiden quälen uns die kleinsten Unannehmlichkeiten.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Suffering
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If human nature were not base, but thoroughly honourable, we should in every debate have no other aim than the discovery of truth; we should not in the least care whether the truth proved to...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our...

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wisdom
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One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with those of the animal being devoured.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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optimism, where it is not just the thoughtless talk of someone with only words in his flat head, strikes me as not only absurd, but even a truly wicked way of thinking, a bitter mockery...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Optimism
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A pena está para o pensamento como a bengala está para o andar. Da mesma maneira que se caminha com mais leveza sem bengala, o pensamento mais pleno se dá sem a pena. Apenas quando...

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

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Inspirational
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Religion
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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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Death before dishonour,” and so on.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Vanity
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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...

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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of ones own.

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Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need for countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of...

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Islam
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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Philosophical
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Uma hipótese leva, na cabeça em que se estabeleceu ou mesmo na cabeça em que nasceu, uma vida comparável à de um organismo, já que assimila do mundo exterior apenas o que lhe é proveitoso...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Truth
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Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy…

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Compassion is the basis of morality.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wishes
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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1.Lesen ist ein bloßes Surrogat des eigenen Denkens. Man läßt dabei seine Gedanken von dem Andern am Gängelbande führen. […] Lesen soll man nur dann, wann auch die Quelle der eigenen Gedanken stockt; was auch...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism between the ills of the body and...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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O espírito íntimo e o sentido da vida verdadeira e pura do claustro e do ascetismo em geral, é sentirmo-nos dignos e capazes de uma existência melhor do que a nossa, e querermos fortificar e...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed...

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Happiness
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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

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Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Assim como todo excesso numa atividade costuma levar ao contrário do que se pretendia, as palavras servem de fato para tornar os pensamentos compreensíveis, mas só até certo ponto. Quando esse ponto é ultrapassado, elas...

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial

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The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee...

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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

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Intellect
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Compassion is the basis of all morality

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Philosophy
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Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Reading
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All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamonds, only the...

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I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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Inspirational
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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AttachmentDeathLoss
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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PerceptionPsychology
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