Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

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Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

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In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.

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The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

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The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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One should use common words to say uncommon things

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Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones only reflect borrowed light.

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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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A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

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Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

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The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

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Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

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The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

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There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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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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The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

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