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Schopenhauer's famous sayings

1. Life is a mass of desires. Unsatisfied desires lead to pain, and satisfying them leads to boredom. Life swings between pain and boredom.

2. People feel fear and sadness for a person's death, because death means that they will no longer be able to experience and feel what happens in the world, and will lose their perception of everything, everything that happened while they were alive. Will be reduced to zero!

3. When a person looks in the mirror, he will never look at himself with the eyes of a stranger. His self-awareness will only keep reminding himself in a low voice: "What I see is not another self." , but my self.

4. "All love passions, no matter how elegant and otherworldly they appear, are only rooted in sexual desire." This kind of strong motivation is second only to the love for one's own life."

5. Small people are often proud of the shortcomings or mistakes of great people.

6. Wise people always enjoy Live your own life and enjoy your leisure time; and those stupid and impatient people are always afraid of leisure and the boredom that leisure will bring to themselves, so they always find themselves some low-level games to give themselves a little temporary pleasure. .

7. Beauty is the highest level of good, and creating beauty is the highest level of pleasure.

8. Desire is the source of human suffering, because desire can never be satisfied. The farther we are from our ideals, the closer we will be to our desires. In real life, we often get lost in ideals and desires, and regard the things we desire as ideals. This is because they are sometimes too close, so close that there is only a thin line between them. In other words, desires are emotional, while ideals are rational.

9. People are like hedgehogs in the cold winter. If they are too close to each other, they will feel stinging; if they are too far away from each other, they will feel cold. People must keep an appropriate distance to live.

10. Time is infinite, but human life is limited. In order to use limited time to compete with infinite time, people adopt the method of reproduction to extend their life time. This is the human instinct to reproduce.

11. Man has always been in pain, because his essence falls into the hands of pain.

12. If desire is too violent and intense, it will no longer just affirm one's own existence, but will instead deny or cancel the existence of others.

13. Human beings are the embodiment of desires and needs.