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Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man or woman.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality(Hackett Classics)
Tagged: kindness, Compassion, Animals, Cruelty
“A man should avoid being led by the phantoms of his imaginary nothing.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: present
“Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Tagged: Wealth, Thirst, Desire
“No greater mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On Authorship and Style
Tagged: Progress, Change Is Not Always Good, Against The New
“The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
Tagged: Religion, Confession, Allegorical Nature, Concealing the truth
“Our whole life it is the present and the present alone that we actually possess.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: present
“There is direct pleasure seeing what grows under one's hands day by day, until at last it is finished.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: The Process
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism
Tagged: Perception, Vision, View
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Tagged: Alone, Solitude, Freedom
“Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On The Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms
Tagged: Fame, Honor
“A man should never let himself be master by the impressions of this moment or indeed the outward appearances at all.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: present
“Fate soon teaches us, in a rough and ready way, that we really possess nothing at all, but that everything in the world is at its command.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: Fate, Amor fati
“Therefore we should always be glad of it and give it the welcome it deserves, and enjoy every hour that is bearable by its freedom from pain and annoyance with a full consciousness of its value.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: present
“The is the pleasure attached to a work of art of manuscript or even more manual labor; and of course the tougher the work, the greater the pleasure it will give.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: The Process
“It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire. For politeness is like a counter--an avowedly false coin, with which it is foolish to be stingy.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Tagged: Manner, character, Rude, Politeness
“To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experiences.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims
Tagged: Life, Foregiveness
“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays
Tagged: Fools, humor, Writing, audience
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Tagged: Loss, Lessons, Learning
“Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.’”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
Tagged: Only If We Don't Know It
“You must let it run its course and abide the result.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: Fate, Amor fati
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality
Tagged: Animal Cruelty, Barbarity, Western Crudity, Compassion, Morality
“Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A Dialogue
Tagged: Religion, War, Monotheistic, Chaos, Destruction, Belief
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