To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to...

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to...

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in...

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in...

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner,...

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner,...

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them....

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Compassion is the basis of all morality

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of...

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of...

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a...

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a...

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to...

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to...

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something...

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something...

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask...

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask...

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh...

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh...