Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHappiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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