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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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 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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