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The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...more

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Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to make every sacrifice for her? Because it is ...more

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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for ...more

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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he...more

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I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the objective consideration just dis...more

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What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence...more

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In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-exist...more

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We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature o...more

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

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful.

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Compassion is the basis of all morality

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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourish...more

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Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact th...more

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Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting)“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, an...more