More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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.
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.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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 high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
