Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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The world is my idea.
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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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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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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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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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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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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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