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Arthur Schopenhauer

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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One should use common words to say uncommon things


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics in the words of Leon Poliakov to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters". If we could castrate all scoundrels and stick all stupid geese in a convent and give men of noble character a whole harem and procure men and indeed thorough men for all girls of intellect and understanding then a generation would soon arise which would produce a better age than that of Pericles. He quotes Horace's saying "From the brave and good are the brave descended" (Odes iv 4 29) and Shakespeare's line from Cymbeline "Cowards father cowards and base things sire base" (IV 2) to reinforce his hereditarian argument.

Influenced by Eastern thought he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers (i. He has influenced a long list of thinkers including Friedrich NietzscheRichard Wagner Ludwig Wittgenstein Erwin Schrödinger Albert EinsteinSigmund Freud Otto Rank Carl Jung Joseph Campbell Leo Tolstoy Thomas Mann and Jorge Luis Borges.

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