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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Each day is a little life.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The world is my idea.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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