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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Each day is a little life.
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