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Way Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
- ...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is…
- It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that makes…
- A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.
- If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same…
- Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.
- A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of…
- If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other…
- The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
- Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed…
- Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
- It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things…
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
- The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
- The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a…
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