More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
