Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHe who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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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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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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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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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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The world is my idea.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Each day is a little life.
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