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More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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 Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
