Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf 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.
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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Each day is a little life.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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