Arthur Schopenhauer quotes - page 7

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. View quote
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Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. View quote
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. View quote
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If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked. View quote
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The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. View quote
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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. View quote
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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite. View quote
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. View quote
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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. View quote
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No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Life is a constant process of dying. View quote
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What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others. View quote
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain. View quote
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One should use common words to say uncommon things. View quote
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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. View quote
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The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it. View quote
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Men best show their character in trifles, where they are not on their guard. It is in the simplest habits, that we often see the boundless egotism which pays no regard to the feelings of others and denies nothing to itself. View quote
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Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. View quote
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The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. View quote
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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it. View quote
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Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. View quote
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