Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — 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
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and… — 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
“Thus, because Christian morality leaves animals out of account (of this, more later on), they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals;… — 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
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“No animal ever torments another for the mere purpose of tormenting, but man does it, and it is this that constitutes the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into… — 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
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
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
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it… — 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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