More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
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.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
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.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
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.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
