More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
