Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTreat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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