We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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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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