All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Pessimist philosophy

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Attributed to Schopenhauer, though exact source debated

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1818

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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer

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