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Quote of Arthur Schopenhauer - Life swings like a pendulum backward...


Biography - Arthur Schopenhauer:

German philosopher.
Born: 1788 - Died: 1860
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Ainsi toute notre vie oscille, comme un pendule, de droite a gauche de la souffrance à l'ennui.

German
Das Leben schwingt wie ein Pendel hin und her zwischen Schmerz und Langeweile.




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Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes

Quotes for: pain


Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.





Who fears to suffer, already suffers what he fears.





To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.





I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.











Quotes

Quotes for: Boredom


He who knows the art of living with oneself ignores boredom.





Since I learned to laugh at myself, I'm never bored.
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The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.





Life is short, but boredom makes it longer.





Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.







Quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer also said...


Change alone is the constant.





Fate shuffles the cards and we play.





Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science.





The philosopher should never forget that he is cultivating an art and not a science.





For our improvement we need a mirror.





A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.












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