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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

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First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

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There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity. All young people should be taught now to put up with loneliness ... because the less man is compelled to come into contact with others, the better off he is.

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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake.

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Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

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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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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

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[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

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There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.

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Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

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Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.

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What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

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This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes us happy or the reverse.

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