Arthur Schopenhauer

Women are the causa causorum of all human misery.

The will is the strong blind man who carries on his shoulders the lame man who can see.

Life is a constant dying.

The more we have, the more we want.

Happiness is merely the absence of pain.

The greatest happiness for a man is to be free.

The more a man is educated, the more he is alone.

One day, we shall all be ashes.

The truest philosophy is to learn to live with what is.

The greatest wisdom is to know oneself.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs.

Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is a more infallible index to character than the face.

Life is a pendulum swinging between pain and boredom.

No man is happy; he can only strive to be so.

Human life is a business that does not pay its expenses.

Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and educators of our early childhood, by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted.

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual impulses that could give the name of the fair sex to that undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race.

In order to live a life that is truly worth living, one must at some point become thoroughly disgusted with it.

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason, would the human race exist? Would not everyone rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to place it in such a position where it must struggle against everything?

To marry is to halve one's rights and double one's duties.