We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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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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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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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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Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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