We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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