We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use 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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