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More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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.
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.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.