To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
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To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
- Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Best Quotes
- Reputation is what men and women think of us character is what God and angels know of us.
- Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
- Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
- Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists.
- The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- Trust, but verify.
- The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.
- I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.