We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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