Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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A 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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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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The world is my idea.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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