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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA 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.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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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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Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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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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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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The world is my idea.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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