More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.
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.
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.
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
