1. “Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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2. “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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3. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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4. “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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5. “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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6. “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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7. “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.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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8. “Life without pain has no meaning.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

9. “The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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10. “What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

11. “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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12. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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13. “Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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14. “Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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15. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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16. “Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

17. “A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

18. “Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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19. “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.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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20. “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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21. “Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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22. “In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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23. “Compassion is the basis of morality.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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24. “Life is a constant process of dying.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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25. “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

26. “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

27. “The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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28. “Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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29. “Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

30. “The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

31. “Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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32. “The world is my representation.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

33. “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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34. “There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

35. “The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

36. “In their hearts women think that it is men’s business to earn money and theirs to spend it.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

37. “After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

38. “Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

39. “One should use common words to say uncommon things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

40. “To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

41. “It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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42. “Each day is a little life.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

43. “Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

44. “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.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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45. “Human life must be some form of mistake.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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46. “The present is the only reality and the only certainty.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

47. “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

48. “It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

49. “Materialism is the philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

50. “We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer