Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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