The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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