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.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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.
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.
