50+ Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
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Deep Flower One Liner Philosophy
Fate shuffles the cards and we play.
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Fate Inspirational One Liner Play
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
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Deep Happiness Mistake Ourselves People Relationship Sorrow
Compassion is the basis of morality.
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Compassion One Liner
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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Alone Evil Fate Greatness Grief Time
Each day is a little life.
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Day Life Little One Liner
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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Life Philosophy Trouble
Genius lives only one story above the madness.
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Genius Live Mad One Liner
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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Freedom Himself Love Man Philosophy Solitude
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
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Greatness Man Solitude
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
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Inspirational Limitation Man Vision World
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
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Animal Art People Religion Thinking
Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Marriage Oneself Right
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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Endurance Life Ourselves Philosophy
Life is a constant process of dying.
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Death Life One Liner Philosophy
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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Myself Speak Success Woman Women Empowerment
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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Deep Myself Philosophy Secret Silence
The world is my idea.
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Ideas Myself One Liner World
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
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Faith Force Love
Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
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Life Philosophy Speak Truth
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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Alone Intellectual Man
Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
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Compassion Virtue
Happiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
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Happiness Philosophy Pleasure
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Life Pain Science
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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Attachment Himself Important Writing
Ordinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
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Inspirational Man People Talent Thinking Time
Truth is most beautiful undraped.
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Beautiful One Liner Truth

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