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Studies in Pessimism quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer

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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 sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence? or at any rate not...” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels...” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
“there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.” Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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