Genius lives only one story above the madness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The world is my idea.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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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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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.
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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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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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