Boredom is just the reverse side of fasc... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

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Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Change

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Money People

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Want Man

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Delight Man

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Conversation Right Men Now

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

People

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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