50+ Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER

Deep Existence Himself Man Mystery
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
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Born Death Philosophy Spiritual Yourself
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
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Animal Devil Men Nature Philosophy Soul Spiritual
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Life Ourselves Philosophy
Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
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Art Speak Yourself
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
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Break Up Death End Taste
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Ourselves People
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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Difficult Happiness Impossible Oneself
One should use common words to say uncommon things.
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Oneself Speak Word
Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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Honor Lost Respect Win
The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Best Life Myself
Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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Deep Fame Sea True Wealth
A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
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Divine Funny Man Quality
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
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Music One Liner World
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Expectation Happiness Miserable Safety Way
We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.
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Deep Philosophy Speak
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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Animal Death Time
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
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Alone Change Deep Forever One Liner
Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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Himself Man Philosophy
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
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Desire Hope Philosophy
Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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Human Nature Polite
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
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Deep Genius See Talent
Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Deep Loss Teaching Worth
Reading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
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Book Deep Thinking
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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Person Writing
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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Deep God Heart Broken Misery Religious World

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