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“Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure”
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“And finally, to call to mind the enormous influence which "German philosophy"--I hope you understand its right to inverted commas-”
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.”
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“NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to
mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even
if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot
of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing
generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment,
that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly
stuck to its work through the course of a long life.
preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”
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mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even
if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot
of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing
generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment,
that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly
stuck to its work through the course of a long life.
preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation”
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