More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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 shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
