Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.

Arthur Schopenhauer