Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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