More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
