More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
