Human life must be some form of mistake.
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text: the next thirty supply the commentary. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Compassion is the basis of all morality. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- We forfeit three fourths of ourselves to be like other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. – Arthur Schopenhauer
- Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. – Arthur Schopenhauer