They tell us that suicide is the greates... by Arthur Schopenhauer

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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 this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Man Life

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Time

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Conversation Right Men Now

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

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Opinion Present Truth

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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