Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Death Quotes, Loss Quotes

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

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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

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To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

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It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulse that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

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Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence.

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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

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Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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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.

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For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.

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Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.

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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

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Our moral virtues benefit mainly other people; intellectual virtues, on the other hand, benefit primarily ourselves; therefore the former make us universally popular, the latter unpopular.

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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

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