If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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