Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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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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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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A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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The world is my idea.
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Each day is a little life.
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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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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Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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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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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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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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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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