Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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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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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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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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