More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
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.
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.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
