Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1

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    Suave, mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis,
    E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem:
    Non, quia vexari quemquam est jucunda voluptas;
    Sed, quibus ipse malis careas, quia cernere suave est.
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    With those other thinkers, he wills what he knows; with me he knows what he wills.
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    Dissimulation is easiest in mere conversation; indeed, paradoxical as it may sound, it is fundamentally more difficult in a letter, since here a man, left to his own devices, looks into himself and not outwards.
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    Experience has also confirmed that men of great artistic genius have no aptitude for mathematics; no man was ever very distinguished in both at the same time.
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    The disinclination of men of genius to direct their attention to the content of the principle of sufficient reason will show itself first in regard to the ground of being, as a disinclination for mathematics.
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    The glance of the man in whom genius lives and works readily distinguishes him; it is both vivid and firm and bears the character of thoughtfulness, of contemplation.
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    Without the object, without the representation, I am not knowing subject, but mere, blind will;
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    It is therefore wrong to say that “gravity is the cause of a stone’s falling”; the cause is rather the nearness of the earth, since it attracts the stone. Take away the earth, and the stone will not fall, although gravity remains
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    Now in this respect, the true opposite of rational knowledge (Wissen) is feeling (Gefühl)

    Shapiro mode

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    The one half is the object, whose forms are space and time, and through these plurality. But the other half, the subject, does not lie in space and time, for it is whole and undivided in every representing being. Hence a single one of these beings with the object completes the world as representation just as fully as do the millions that exist
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