He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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