Arthur Schopenhauer

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

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

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.