Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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