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 SCHOPENHAUERAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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