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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) was a German philosopher.

2076. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
2077. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
2078. The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
2079. Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
2080. Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
2081. 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.
2082. We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
2071. 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.
2072. Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
2073. Music is the melody whose text is the world.
2074. The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
2075. One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
2039. Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
2040. A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
2041. Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
2042. Life is a constant process of dying.
2043. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
2044. The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
2045. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
2046. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
aith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
2013. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
2014. The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
2015. 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.
2016. 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.
1987. Compassion is the basis of morality.
1988. Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
1989. 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.
1990. That when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
1991. 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.
1992. One should use common words to say uncommon things.
1993. It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire.
1261. 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.
1262. Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
1263. Truth is most beautiful undraped.
1264. The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason is: "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.”
1265. A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
1266. Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
1267. 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.
1223. No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
1224. For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
1225. Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
1226. Each day is a little life.
1227. Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
1228. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
1229. Buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
1230. Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
1171. Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
1172. That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.
1173. To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
1174. Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.
1175. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
1176. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.
1177. Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
1097. To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish.
1098. The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
1099. Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
1100. Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
1101. We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
1102. 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.
1103. Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

1049. No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
1050. Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
1051. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
1052. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
1053. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
1054. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
1055. The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
1056. Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
1057. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

857. 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.
858. The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
859. It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
860. One should use common words to say uncommon things.
861. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
862. Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
863. Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
864. A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
817. 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.
818. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
819. Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
820. Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
821. The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
822. To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
823. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.