We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTreat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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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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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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Each day is a little life.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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