Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTo 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.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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The world is my idea.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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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 seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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