If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur SchopenhauerGaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
Arthur Schopenhauer