"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."
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"It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish."
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"Unrest is the mark of existence."
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"The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence."
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"A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing."
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"All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering."
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"For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy."
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"Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself."
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"Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion."
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"The old woman dies, the burden is lifted."
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"The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds."
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"This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration."
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"Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into"
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"History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind."
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"In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders."
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"The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate."
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"...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself."
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"No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one."
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"...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual."
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"Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word."
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