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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher born in Danzig in 1788. He is best known for his book The World as Will and Representation, which argues that the world is ultimately an expression of blind will. Schopenhauer was a pessimist, but he also believed that there was a way to escape the suffering of life through aesthetic contemplation and compassion. He died in Frankfurt in 1860.

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

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Happiness

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

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Inspirational

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.

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Knowledge

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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.