Human condition Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer Download Open image “Scoundrels are always sociable.” — Arthur Schopenhauer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human condition Inspirational Love Scoundrels Sociable
I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's very hard not to be a scoundrel nowadays. Everywhere there are pressures that work towards our personal and collective debasement. — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“To be sociable is a risky thing—even fatal—because it means being in contact with people, most of whom are dull, perverse and ignorant and… — Paul Hoffman Copy Share Image
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle. — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any… — Artemas Ward 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
“I sighed, he sighed, the wind and flowers sighed too. I think those marble statues sighed along as well, in their lack of understanding… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian because Christianity names and addresses sin. It acknowledges the reality that the evil we observe in the world is also present… — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“A basic guide for application offers this equation: The intention of the text The human condition of the text The human situation of the… — Zack Eswine Copy Share Image
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
That's why we trust the Bible - it speaks to both realities: the unchanging human condition and the constantly changing cultural conditions. It speaks… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no way to explain enlightenment. It is just a word to indicate something beyond, something very, very far beyond the normal human… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't… — Michael Schultz Copy Share Image
Trusting people to be creative and constructive when given more freedom does not imply an overly optimistic belief in the perfectibility of human nature.… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
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