Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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