We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe world is my idea.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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The world is my idea.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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