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More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
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.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
