Music is the melody whose text is the world. — Quoted

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“Music is the melody whose text is the world.”

Arthur Schopenhauer · Music

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Arthur Schopenhauer

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Knowledge

Arthur Schopenhauer

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Freedom

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Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

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We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Success