If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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