"Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided,……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small."
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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