Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

“What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.”

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.”

“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.”

“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.”

“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”

“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

“There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.”

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”

“The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.”

“You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.”