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[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is stru...more

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

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What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantl...more

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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 ridiculo...more

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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 w...more

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From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in order to take up one thing...more

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The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole, not directed...more

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Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

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What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the...more

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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.

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If you want a safe compass to guide you through life, and to banish all doubt as to the right way of looking at it, you cannot do better than accustom...more

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If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sy...more

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However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off, mainly in consequence of the antagonism betwee...more

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A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has t...more

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Truth is most beautiful undraped.