Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion ” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking… — 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
It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If a relationship is perfectly natural there will be a complete fusion of the happiness of both of you-owing to fellow-feeling and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Natural understanding can take the place of almost every degree of culture, but no culture can take the place of natural understanding.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:… — 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
“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the… — 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
