It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROne should use common words to say uncommon things.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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