Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAfter your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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The world is my idea.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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