Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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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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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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