We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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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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