Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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