"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Absurdity
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"There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Adversity
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Age and Aging
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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 dearth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Death and Dying
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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Death and Dying
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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Desire
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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Detail
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"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Education
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"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Explanations
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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."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Faces
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"It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Faces
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"Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Faces
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"Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fame
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"The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fame
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"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Farewells
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"It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fate
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"The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Fools and Foolishness
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"Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Friends and Friendship
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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Genius
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"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Greed
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"The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Happiness
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"Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Honor
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"With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Hypocrisy
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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Ideas
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"We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Imitation
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Individuality
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"Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Intelligence and Intellectuals
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"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Journalism and Journalists
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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Knowledge
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"The word of man is the most durable of all material."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Language
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"Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Life and Living
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"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Anticipation
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"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Loneliness
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"To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Marriage
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"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Marriage
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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 his heart entirely to money."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Money
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"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Mystery
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"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Nations
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