More quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

"All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."
"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness."
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."