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.
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.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
