If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
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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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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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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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