It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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The world is my idea.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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