We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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About Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860), also known as the "Philosopher of Pessimism", was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and...

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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As an individual, with your death there will be an end of you. But your individuality is not your true and final being, indeed it is rather the mere expression of it,… only the phenomenon presented in the form of time, and accordingly has both a beginning and an end. Your being in itself, on the contrary, knows neither time, nor beginning, nor end, nor the limits of a given individuality.… So that, in the first sense, after death you become nothing; in the second, you are and remain everything.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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More quotations tagged with “conformity”

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

—Clifton Fadiman

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Sometimes you have to steer away from the crowd in order to be a better person.

—Simone Elkeles in Leaving Paradise

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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

—James Thurber

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I've never walked the same path other people found comfortable and I'm not going to start now.

—Lora Leigh in Forbidden Pleasure

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

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