Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The world is my idea.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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