"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude…" — Arthur Schopenhauer

"To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish"

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

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More Devilish Quotes

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But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness… — W. E. B. Du Bois
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham
There are those who say that revealed religion and organic evolution can be harmonized. This is both false and devilish. — Bruce R. McConkie
The devil's most devilish when respectable. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is better to give love. Hatred is a low and degrading motion and is so poisonous that no man… — Thomas Dreier
The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing… — H. L. Mencken
I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the… — Mark Twain
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot,… — Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever… — Martin Luther
Little sins carry with them but little temptations to sin, and then a man shews most viciousness and unkindness, when… — Thomas Brooks
Whenever I may be tempted to slack up and let the business run for awhile on its own impetus, I… — Harry Gordon Selfridge

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