Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image ““Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
…marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. — Louis K Anspacher Copy Share Image
Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“An ideal marriage is a true partnership between two imperfect people, each striving to complement the other, to keep the commandments, and to do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Marriage is the art of balancing the desires of each, within the hearts of both, and doing so without uneven sacrifice of either.” — Renee Duvall Copy Share Image
To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life. — Donna Woolfolk Cross Copy Share Image
“While marriage in the first instance is for the benefit of the contracting parties, both physical, mental, and spiritual, each must take the longer… — Hugh B. Brown Copy Share Image
“Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes. — 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