It is a great piece of folly to sacrifice the inner for the outer man.
¶ (Attributed)
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
¶ (Attributed)
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
¶ (Attributed)
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
¶ Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, "Counsels and Maxims," tr. T. Bailey Saunders (1851)
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings …. The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it.
¶ The World as Will and Idea
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