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More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.
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.
The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
