Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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