Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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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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Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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The world is my idea.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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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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Each day is a little life.
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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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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Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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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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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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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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After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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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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One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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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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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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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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