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Alone Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
- A man's knowledge may be said to be mature, in other words, when it has reached the most complete state of perfection to which he,…
- The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.
- Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.
- Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
- It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
- There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
- 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…
- If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man…
- He who can see truly in the midst of general infatuation is like a man whose watch keeps good time, when all clocks in the…
- ...in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.
- 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.
- Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that…
- The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every individual something which…
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for…
More Alone Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not… — Sri Aurobindo
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
- I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his… — Ibrahim Babangida
- In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges and threats… — Michelle Bachelet
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld