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Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation. He is commonly known for having espoused a sort of philosophical pessimism that saw life as being essentially evil, futile, and full of suffering. However, upon closer inspection, in accordance with Eastern thought, especially that of Buddhism, he saw salvation, deliverance, or escape from suffering in aesthetic contemplation, sympathy for others, and ascetic living. His ideas profoundly influenced the fields of philosophy, psychology, and literature. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

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

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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."

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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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"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."

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"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."

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"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

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

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

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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."

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