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.
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
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 present is the only reality and the only certainty.
The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
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.
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
