If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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 forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The world is my idea.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Each day is a little life.
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