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Compassion is the basis of all morality (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Rascals are always sociable, more’s the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others’ company (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
...In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met... (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be intime alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, forspace has no before, after, or now, (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
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. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. (Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes)