Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You can do what you will, but in any given moment of your life you can will only one definite thing and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The conviction is well founded, which the sight of noble conduct calls forth, that the spirit of love... can never pass away… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Vladimir Kush , Shell Bronze , Lovers Entwined (painting) “Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Why, then, does the man in love hang with complete abandon on the eyes of his chosen one, and is ready to… — 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
