Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMen are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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The world is my idea.
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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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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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