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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: being-forced, faith, love
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “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, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: freedom, solitude
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
    tags: boredom, sociability
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The truth … was that this world could not have been the work of an all-loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings; to this the data pointed, and the belief that it is so won the upper hand.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: inspirational, talent
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Compassion is the basis of morality.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
    tags: attachment, death, loss, worth
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “One should use common words to say uncommon things”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: clarity, naivete, simplicity, writing
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

    Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
    tags: determinism, free-will, idealism, pessimism
    816 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Life is a constant process of dying.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: philosophy-of-life
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: art, art-appreciation
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. ”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: religion
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
    ― Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: confidentiality, gossip, secrets
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “the world is my idea”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: afterlife, birth, death, life, life-after-death, metaphysics, philosophy
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Literature
    tags: art-of-literature, reading, schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “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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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Music is the melody whose text is the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
    tags: impressions, letter, opinion
    67 likes

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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “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, Counsels and Maxims
    tags: death, life, philosophy, wisdom
    68 likes



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