More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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 safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
