More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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 present is the only reality and the only certainty.