Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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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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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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