Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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