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Philosoph, Schriftsteller, "Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung", "Über das Sehen und die Farben", "Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom zureichenden Grunde", "Über den Willen in der Natur" (Deutschland, 1788 - 1860).

Arthur Schopenhauer · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Arthur Schopenhauer wäre heute 236 Jahre, 2 Monate, 13 Tage oder 86.270 Tage alt.

Geboren am 22.02.1788 in Danzig/Polen
Gestorben am 21.09.1860 in Frankfurt am Main
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

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• Open doors and gates for serenity whenever she comes, because she never comes untimely.

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• Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue . . . in which we are surpassed by the lower animals.

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• Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

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• The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

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• The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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• The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

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• The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

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• The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

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• There is nothing in the world to which every man has a a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

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• There is one respect in which brutes show real wisdom when compared with us - I mean their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

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• Through what we do we learn what we are.

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• To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.

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• To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

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

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• We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others.

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• We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack.

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• With most people there will be no harm in occasionally mixing a grain of disdain with your treatment of them; that will make them value your friendship all the more.

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• Beaucoup plus facile est réfuter que prouver; renverser que mettre sur pied.

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• C'est par ce que nous faisons que nous apprenons ce que nous sommes.
  • Lucien Giordani spricht . . .

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