More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
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.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
