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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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The world is my idea.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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