We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGenius lives only one story above the madness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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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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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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The world is my idea.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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