Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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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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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The world is my idea.
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Each day is a little life.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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