Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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.
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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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The world is my idea.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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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 full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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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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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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