Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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