More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
