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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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

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Yohannes D. Asega > My Quotes(showing 1-1 of 1)sort by ↑ topup up positiondown down↓ bottomRemove this quote from your collectionArthur Schopenhauer“W...more

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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he ...more

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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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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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