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Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.


Arthur Schopenhauer

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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in partic...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Time is that in which all things pass away.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of ch...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little yout...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that othe...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who shoul...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER No one can transcend their own individuality.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so yo...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore ...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same t...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alte...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, i...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great tal...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can se...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A word too much always defeats its purpose.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental cap...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but is a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If we weren't all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting we couldn't endure it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity of my dog; and I have sim...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overloa...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arise from the feeling that there is ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER