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Arthur Schopenhauer: top 100 quotes
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Harmony (n.) is only the sauce to the red meat of melody.
Life (n.) is a constant process of dying.
Life (n.) is a short interval between twice nothing.
Life (n.) is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say that ' man has done his task.'.
Life (n.) is full of troubles and vexations which one must either rise above by means of corrected thoughts, or one must leave it.
Life (n.) is that to which man aims in his nature. Put differently, what man is in his real nature is 'the will to live'.
Life (n.) is a business which does not cover its expenses.
Death (n.) animals hear about for the first time when they die.
Death (n.) is conquerable by the will only through reproduction, which is why reproduction is the strongest instinct and which is why it is placed almost entirely beyond control of knowledge or reflection.
Death (n.) is, for the species, what sleep is for the individual.
Death (n.) is not experienced at the species level, for which the alteration between death and reproduction in the individual can be said to be nothing but the pulse-beat of the species.
History (n.) is the long, difficult and confused dream of mankind.
Freedom (n.) is available to man only when he is alone.
Reading (n.) is a mere makeshift for original thinking.
Reading (n.) is a danger. Many learned persons have read themselves stupid.
Reading (n.) is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.
Sleep (n.) is to a man what winding up is to a clock.
Consciousness (n.) is not requisite for acting. Most existences are without it and do just fine.
The Subject (n.) knows all things and is known by none.
The Universe (n.) is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.