Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The world is my idea.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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