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 SCHOPENHAUERHappiness consists of the frequent repetition of pleasure.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMusic is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERA 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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERTalent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReading is thinking with someone else’s head instead of one’s own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERCompassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERNo rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERIt is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
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 SCHOPENHAUER