Compassion is the basis of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
More Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
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We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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Each day is a little life.
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Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts or leave it.
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I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself from above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
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If God made this world, then I would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.
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The shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
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Marrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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Mostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
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Life is a constant process of dying.
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Wealth is like sea water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.
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The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.
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Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
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