Each day is a little life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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 more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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