Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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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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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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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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