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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes his heart entirely to money.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
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.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
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.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome — to be got over.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)