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Arthur Schopenhauer

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.


— Arthur Schopenhauer


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About 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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