Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“[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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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