Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Character Quotes, Tragedy Quotes

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

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Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.

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It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.

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Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.

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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

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If two men who were friends in their youth meet again when they are old, after being separated for a life-time, the chief feeling they will have at the sight of each other will be one of complete disappointment at life as a whole; because their thoughts will be carried back to that earlier time when life seemed so fair as it lay spread out before them in the rosy light of dawn, promised so much — and then performed so little.

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Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.

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Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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Restlessness is the hallmark of existence.

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To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.

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Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain.

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

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The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.

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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.

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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

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We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

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