Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner, if I let it slip from my tongue, I am Its prisoner.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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 swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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