But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation. And the capacity for faith is at its strongest in childhood: which is why religions apply themselves before all else to getting these tender years into their possession. It is in this way, even more than by threats and stories of miracles, that the doctrines of faith strike roots: for if, in earliest childhood, a man has certain principles and doctrines repeatedly recited to him with abnormal solemnity and with an air of supreme earnestness such as he has never before beheld, and at the same time the possibility of doubt is never so much as touched on, or if it is only in order to describe it as the first step towards eternal perdition, then the impression produced will be so profound that in almost every case the man will be almost incapable of doubting this doctrine as of doubting his own existence, so that hardly one in a thousand will then possess the firmness of mind seriously and honestly to ask himself: is this true?
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Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no
real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our being—were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
A solidão é a sorte de todos os espíritos excepcionais.
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Por sabedoria entendo a arte de tornar a vida mais agradável e feliz possível.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: sabedoria
Quanto menos vida pessoal, mais segura e melhor será a vida intelectual.
Arthur SchopenhauerОбикновеният човек има само една грижа - как да убие времето си, а умният - как да го употреби.
Arthur SchopenhauerOrdinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: wisdom
The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: writing
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: happiness
O homem seduzido pela ilusão da vida individual, escravo do egoísmo, só vê as coisas que o tocam pessoalmente, e encontra aí motivos incessantemente renovados para desejar e querer; pelo contrário, aquele que penetra a essência das coisas, que domina o conjunto, chega ao repouso de todo o desejo e de todo o querer. Daí em diante a sua vontade desvia-se da vida, repele com susto os gozos que a perpetuam. O homem chega então ao estado da renúncia voluntária, da resignação, da tranqüilidade verdadeira, e da ausência absoluta de vontade.
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