More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
