He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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