Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

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• 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, all-good, and at the same…
• 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 to answer. The question is…
• 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 youth show only the first…
• A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.
• The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.
• Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects…
• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.
• The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
• Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
• The memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that…
• Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.
• People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
• Pride... is the direct appreciation of oneself.
• To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a…
• Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…

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