More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
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.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
