More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.
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.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
