Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark. — 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
“It is this which makes suicide easier: for the physical pain associated with it loses all significance in the eyes of one… — 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
“A man cannot serve two masters: so it is either reason or the scriptures. - On Religion ” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one… — 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
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life. — 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
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the… — 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
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In conformity with this spirit and aim of the Stoa, Epictetus begins with it and constantly returns to it as the kernel… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But it is common knowledge that religions don’t want conviction, on the basis of reasons, but faith, on the basis of revelation.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to 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
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. — 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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