Top 10 Arthur Schopenhauer quotes

Talent hits a target no one else can hit, genius hits a target no one else can see.

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The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

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Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

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The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

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There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

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