We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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