Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMan can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGenius lives only one story above the madness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIf we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERUniversal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAfter your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERWe forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTreat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER