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All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

Arthur Schopenhauer's Popular Quotes

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…

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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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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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A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

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We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.

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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.

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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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