To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The world is my idea.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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