Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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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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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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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