Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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