Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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