The world is my idea.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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