...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“what penalty can frighten a man who is not afraid of death itself?” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is in every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed without… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that as soon the terrors of live reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death. The higher the interest rate… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that the idea of dignity can be applied only in an ironical sense to a being whose will… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Animals learn death first at the moment of death;...man approaches death with the knowledge it is closer every hour, and this creates… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every new born being indeed comes fresh and blithe into the new existence, and enjoys it as a free gift: but there… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When, at the end of their lives, most men look back they will find that they have lived throughout ad interim. They… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But he will fear least to become nothing in death who has recognized that he is already nothing now, and who consequently… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
“In travelling where novelties of all kinds press in upon us, mental food is often supplied so rapidly from without that there is no… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share
