Genius lives only one story above the madness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Each day is a little life.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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