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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by con...more

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the t...more

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

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One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with ...more

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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Life presents itself as a continual deception, in small matters as well as in great. If it has promised, it does not keep its word, unless to show how...more

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantl...more

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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to w...more

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If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom...more

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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sy...more