More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
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.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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.