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“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner… if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”

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“The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.”

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Quelle: The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1

“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

Vol. 2, Ch. 23, § 296a
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Quelle: Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)

“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”

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“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit

E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 347
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

“If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.”

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“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

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“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

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“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”

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“To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.”

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Arthur Schopenhauer buch Parerga und Paralipomena

Quelle: On Human Nature

“The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.”

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Quelle: The Works of Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life and Other Essays

“We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”

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Variante: We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”

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“What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others…”

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