If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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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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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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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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