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Unrest is the mark of existence.

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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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What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

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

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It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.

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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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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.

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Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.

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Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

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Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

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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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It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

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Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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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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For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up.

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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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