Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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The world is my idea.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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