More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
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.
