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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation, in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
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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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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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