If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The world is my idea.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Each day is a little life.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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