More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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.
