Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The world is my idea.
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Each day is a little life.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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