Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The world is my idea.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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