If we were not all so interested in ours... by Arthur Schopenhauer | We Heart Quotes

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If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Other quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Thoughts Man Will

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Distrust Mind

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

Existence Man

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

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