Arthur Schopenhauer: We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. — Arthur Schopenhauer

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Source: Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 3.0). Quotations may be subject to their authors' rights and may be shown in translation.

Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of — Arthur Schopenhauer
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the worl — Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est ; it means th — Arthur Schopenhauer
Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, — Arthur Schopenhauer
We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyn — Albert Einstein
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but — Karl Marx
He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar. — Zhuang Zhou
Even so, in death the same unknown will appear as ever known to me. And because — Rabindranath Tagore
Some of you will not come back. Some of you will come back maimed. Those of you — Jan Smuts
Truth was the only daughter of Time. — Leonardo da Vinci
A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. — Oscar Wilde