Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe world is my idea.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Each day is a little life.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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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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The world is my idea.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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