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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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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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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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