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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
If 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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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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He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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