More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
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
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
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.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
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.
