Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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