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State Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- When a man has reached a condition in which he believes that a thing must happen because he does not wish it, and that what…
- Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends, finally, upon the kind of matter that pervades and engrosses our consciousness and what…
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not…
- Every state of welfare, every feeling of satisfaction, is negative in its character; that is to say, it consists in freedom from pain, which is…
- Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
- At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.
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- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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