"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Quotes by 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."
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
"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."
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."