Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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 safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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