What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the will, and thus also to the organism which is nothing other than will regarded objectively, in the approximate same way as light is to a combustible body and the oxygen in combination with which it ignites. Arthur Schopenhauer
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
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James Thurber
The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.
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Lao Tzu
I have forgotten my umbrella.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Laughter is the antidote to existential pain
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S. Spencer Baker
The slope contains many wonders not found at the summit.
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Marty Rubin
More Quotes By Arthur Schopenhauer
What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams,...
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 rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any...
We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
