#us

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#genius #hit #hits #see #talent

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. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#cowardice #every #every man #greatest #his

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

#boredom #both #depend #fascination #inside

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#fame #honor #lost #man #means

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#because #cards #deal #idiots #money

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#hill #just #once #over #pick

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#him #less #man #more #mysterious

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#first #forty #forty years #give #life

Music is the melody whose text is the world. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#music #text #whose #world

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#distrust #generally #greatest #human #human mind