Quote #118

There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

More from Arthur Schopenhauer

  1. Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it…
  2. There is no Kantian-Fichtean philosophy: there is Kantian philosophy and there is Fichtean humbug.
  3. There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is general…
  4. We find ourselves like a hollow glass globe, from whose vacancy a voice speaks.
  5. The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a trag…
  6. We have to regard art as the greater enhancement, the more perfect development of all this; for essentially it achieves just the same thing…
  7. The less a man is forced to come into contact with others, the better off he is.
  8. We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

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