Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERFaith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERChange alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERReligion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMen are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERUniversal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMarrying means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAlmost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEREvery man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERAnimals hear about death for the first time when they die.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERMostly it is a loss that teaches us about the worth of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERThe shortness of life, so often lamented, maybe the best thing about it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERPoliteness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERHe who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUERLife swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUEROrdinary people merely think how they shall spend their time; a man of talent tries to use it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER