Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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