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“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice; that only a madman could be guilty of it; and other insipidities of the same kind; or else they make the nonsensical remark that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“Si una colonia, poscolonia, nación o cultura dependiente intenta seguir la misma ruta europea, nunca llegará a la Modernidad, sino a un aumento de su propia miseria y dependencia colonial.”
― Enrique Dussel, Siete ensayos de filosofía de la liberación: Hacia una fundamentación del giro decolonial (Estructuras y procesos. Filosofía)