More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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.
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.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.