More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.