Nature Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The Jews are the scum of the earth, but they are also great masters in lying.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The mind is by its nature free, not a slave; only what it does by itself and willingly is successful.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls. - On Religion ”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The differences which come under the first head are those which Nature herself has set between man and man;”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

“Thus the will to live everywhere preys upon itself, and in different forms is its own nourishment, till finally the human race,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Natural understanding can take the place of almost every degree of culture, but no culture can take the place of natural understanding.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“What is knowledge? it is primarily and essentially idea. What is idea? A very complicated physiological process in the brain of an…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The fundamental absurdity of materialism is that it starts from the objective, and takes as the ultimate ground of explanation something objective,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself, and is in different forms its own nourishment, till finally the human race, because it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Whoever wants his judgment to be believed, should express it coolly and dispassionately; for all vehemence springs from the will. And so…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer.…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego:…

— Arthur Schopenhauer