Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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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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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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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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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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