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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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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