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Nationality: German
Born: February22, 1788
Died: September21, 1860
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Compassion is the basis of allmorality.
Music is themelody whose text is the world.
The firstforty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply thecommentary on it.
“The closingyears of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks aredropped”
“We forfeitthree-fourths of ourselves in order to be like otherpeople”
“Consoleyourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve youraffection”
【好个阿Q！】
Life swingslike a pendulum backward and forward between pain andboredom”
Thedeep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arisefrom the feeling that there is in every individual something whichis inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore,absolutely and irretrievably lost
[看来德里达之哀悼的不可能性并无甚新意]
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport tofortune.
“If you wantto know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced inyou by the first sight of a letter from him.”
“A man canbe himself only so long as he is alone.”
“Everyonetakes the limits of his own vision for the limits of theworld.”
“The doctorsees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness,the theologian all the stupidity.”
“Thegreatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind ofhappiness.”
“It is onlyat the first encounter that a face makes its full impression onus.”
The moreunintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems tohim”
Suffering by na ture or chance never seems so painfulas suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will ofanother.
Theassumption that animals are without rights and the illusion thatour treatment of them has no moral significance is a positivelyoutrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universalcompassion is the only guarantee of morality.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Geniushits a target no one else can see.
To marry is to halve your rights and double yourduties.
【所谓结婚，就是自愿将自身权利减半，将自身责任加倍。】
A man can do what he wants, but not want what hewants.
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars,butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives ofAmerica and the introduction of African slaves in theirplace”
Religion isthe masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains peopleas to how they shall think.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you beginto pick up speed.【务必牢记，只要翻过山头，你就可以走得更快了！】
A man's face as a rule says more, and moreinteresting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium ofeverything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram ofall this man's thoughts and aspirations.”
It isdifficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything movesthey begin to bark.
[新闻记者就是狗一样，哪里有个风吹草动它们就开叫]
“Every truthpasses through three stages before it is recognized. In the firstit is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it isregarded as self-evident”
“I've neverknow any trouble than an hour's reading didn'tassuage
【纠结中？读一个小时书，就不纠结了！】.”
“Anybook, which is at all important, should be rereadimmediately”
“The longera man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be incoming.”
Will minusintellect constitutes vulgarity.
Intellect isinvisible to the man who has none
Change aloneis eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
It is withtrifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals hischaracter.”
“Suicide mayalso be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts toNature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: Whatchange will death produce in a man's existence and in his insightinto the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; forit involves the destruction of the very consciousness which putsthe question and awaits the answer.”
They tell usthat suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice...that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that thereis nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailabletitle than to his own life and person.”
After yourdeath you will be what you were before your birth.”
“Hatredcomes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feelingis quite within our control”
“Thegreatest achievements of the human mind are generally received withdistrust.”
To livealone is the fate of all great souls.
【孤独地活着是所有伟大灵魂的宿命】
Great menare like eagles, and build their nest on some loftysolitude.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
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A man can do what he wants, but not want what hewants.
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A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for someparticular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out ofit, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for themore we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when itcomes.
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A man's face as a rule says more, and more interestingthings, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything hismouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man'sthoughts and aspirations.
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After your death you will be what you were before yourbirth.
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it isridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is acceptedas being self-evident.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relationswith other people.
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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as usefulas a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vastamount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than amuch smaller amount if you have not thought it over foryourself.
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Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they dealcards, and try and win one another's money.Idiots!
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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both dependon being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads tothe other.
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could alsobuy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of booksis mistaken for the appropriation of theircontents.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising alittle birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going torest and sleep a little death.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of visionfor the limits of the world.
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Every nation ridicules other nations, and all areright.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, everyreunion a hint of theresurrection.
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Every possession and every happiness is but lent bychance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded backthe next hour.
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For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensibleas the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives apedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes himhardly intelligible.
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Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport tofortune.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some loftysolitude.
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Great minds are related to the brief span of time duringwhich they live as great buildings are to a little square in whichthey stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because youare standing too close to them.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of thehead.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something whichmust not be lost.
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I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn'tassuage.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would beso uninteresting that none of us would be able to endureit.
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch theeffect produced in you by the first sight of a letter fromhim.
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work,a great head.
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry meansto halve one's rights and double one'sduties.
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In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain themasters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only forbrief periods.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoidpain.
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It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows whatthey are.
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truthand life in them. For it is these that he really and completelyunderstands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking theremains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discardedclothes of a stranger.
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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its fullimpression on us.
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man bestreveals his character.
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It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us thehand, and we play the cards.
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Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves theybegin to bark.
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick upspeed.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous withoutability.
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Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; butwomen are by nature enemies.
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is nolonger capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devoteshimself utterly to money.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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National character is only another name for the particularform which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind takein every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all areright.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comesincreased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degreeof intelligence that suffering reaches its supremepoint.
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Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand,however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands,it also seldom works properly.
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into theplace of the intellect.
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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goespast the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distanceon the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds thetrue point at which it can remain at rest.
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Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domainof learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out ofdoors.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is towax.
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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chiefsign that a man has any nobility in his character is the littlepleasure he takes in others' company.
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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's headinstead of with one's own.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is thepositive element of life.
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Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which iscalled in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and themore regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption ispostponed.
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful assuffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will ofanother.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits atarget no one else can see.
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The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many otherthings of greater value.
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The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of theorganism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with thebody.
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude thatsomething can be true and untrue at the same time.
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The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not bythe false appearance things present and which mislead into error,not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but bypreconceived opinion, by prejudice.
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The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer allthe wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the nextthirty supply the commentary on it.
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning restsis the inexplicable.
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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generallyreceived with distrust.
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The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any otherkind of happiness.
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The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it willbe in coming.
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to himto ask for.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysteriousexistence seems to him.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain andboredom.
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who arethe majority have always done just the opposite.
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The word of man is the most durable of allmaterial.
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There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmlyplanted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it beforethe age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of greatsolemnity.
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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed,but to be overcome; to be got over.
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece ofcowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious thatthere is nothing in the world to which every man has a moreunassailable title than to his own life and person.
ArthurSchopenhauer
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy thetime to read them.
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To find out your real opinion of someone, judge theimpression you have when you first see a letter fromthem.
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To free a person from error is to give, and not to takeaway.
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To live alone is the fate of all greatsouls.
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Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to youfirst.
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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with asmuch regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when wemiss their existence as witnesses to our success.
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We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to belike other people.
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Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, thethirstier we become; and the same is true offame.
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Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set theirmark on the face, especially the eyes.
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Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man whocarries on his shoulders a lame man who cansee.
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With people of limited ability modesty is merelyhonesty. But with those who possess great talent it ishypocrisy.
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德国哲学家。他坚持物自体，并认为它可以通过直观而被认识，将其确定为意志。意志独立于时间、空间，所有理性、知识都从属于它。人们只有在审美的沉思时逃离其中。叔本华将它著名的极端悲观主义和此学说联系在一起，认为意志的支配最终只能导致虚无和痛苦。他对心灵屈从于器官、欲望和冲动的压抑、扭曲的理解预言了精神分析学和心理学。他文笔流畅，思路清晰，后期的散文式论述对后来哲学著作的诗意化产生了较大影响。1. DasSchicksal mischt die Karten, wir spielen. 命运混合好了牌，然后我们玩。 2. DerWechsel allein ist das Beständige. 变化是唯一不变的。3. DieMenschen sind wesentlich böse, wesentlich unglücklich, wesentlichdumm. 人本质上是邪恶的，不幸的和愚蠢的。4. Man hatin der Welt nicht viel mehr, als die WahlzwischenEinsamkeit und Gemeinheit. 除了孤独隔世和融合入世以外，人在这世界上没有没有更多的选择。5. Gott, - wenn du bist -, erretteaus dem Grabe / meine Seele – wenn ich einehabe 上帝啊，如果你是上帝，请从坟墓里拯救我的灵魂——如果我有灵魂！6. Füreine gelungene Rede gebrauche gewöhnliche Worteundsageungewöhnliche Dinge. 一个成功的演讲用平常的话解释不平凡的东西。7. Glaubenund Wissen verhalten sich wie die zweiSchaleneiner Waage:in dem Maße, als die eine steigt,sinktdie andere. 信仰和学问的关系就像是天平的两个秤盘：一个秤盘升高了，那么另一个就降下来。8.Höflichkeit ist Klugheit,folglich ist Unhöflichkeit Dummheit. 礼貌是智慧，因此无礼是愚蠢。9.Höflichkeit ist wie einLuftkissen:es mag zwar nichts drin sein, aber esmildert die Stöße des Lebens. 礼貌就像是气垫一样，里面虽然什么都没有，但却能减缓 生活的冲突。10. Man lernt dann und wannetwas,aber man vergisst den ganzen Tag. 人有时候学点儿，但是一整天都在忘记。11. Nichts ist schwerer, alsbedeutende Gedankenso auszudrücken, daß jeder sie verstehenmuß. 没有比把伟大的思想表达到每个人都必须理解更难的事情了。12. Toleranz heißt: dieFehler der anderenentschuldigen.Takt heißt: sie nicht bemerken. 宽容意味着原谅别人的错误；老练意味着不会对这些错误发表意见。13. Vergeben und vergessenheißt kostbare Erfahrungenzum Fensterhinauswerfen. 原谅和忘记就是扔掉宝贵的经验。14. Wir denken selten andas, was wir haben,aber immeran das, was uns fehlt. 我们很少去想我们有什么，但却一直在想我们还缺什么。15. Zwischen dem Genie unddem Wahnsinnigen istdie Ähnlichkeit, dass sie ineiner andern Weltleben als der für allevorhandenen. 在天才和疯子之间有一点相似之处， 这就是他们都生活在另一个不同于其他人所在的世界里。16. Das Geld gleicht demSeewasser.Je mehr davongetrunken wird,desto durstiger wird man. 金钱就像海水，人喝得越多就会越渴。17. Das Leben kann als einTraum angesehen werdenund der Tod als Erwachen. 生可以被看做是梦，而死才是清醒。18. Der einzige Mann, derwirklich nicht ohne Frauenleben kann, ist derFrauenarzt. 唯一一个真的离开女人就不能活的男人是妇科医生。
