One should use common words to say uncommon things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGenius lives only one story above the madness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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Each day is a little life.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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