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 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 SCHOPENHAUERIf God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHe who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTreat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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 SCHOPENHAUERThe world is my idea.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTo be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER