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«It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Character,
Trifle
| Keywords:
guard, off guard, reveals, trifled, trifles
«Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man's existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
awaited, awaits, clumsy, experiment, insight, involves, putting to death, regarded, The Nature of Things
«Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Boredom
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, swings
«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 which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cowardice, obvious, piece, suicide, Telling the World, Tell the World, title, titled, unassailable
«Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
hill, over-the-hill, pick, pick up, speed, the Hill
«After your death you will be what you were before your birth.»
«Intellect is invisible to the man who has none»
«The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
closing, dropped, masks, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading
«The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America and the introduction of African slaves in their place»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Christianity,
War
| Keywords:
African, Africans, America, butcheries, butchery, Christianity, crusade, crusades, crusading, extermination, exterminations, fruits, inquisitions, introduction, introductions, Introduction to, Natives, religious, religious war, slaves, The Crusades, the Inquisition, wars
«Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
evident, opposed, opposes, passe, passes, recognized, regarded, ridiculed, ridicules, self evident, staged, stages, The Second, The Third, third
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