Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination. Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer More Quotes From Arthur Schopenhauer After your death you will be what you were before your birth. Arthur Schopenhauer philosophical suicide death 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 philosophical compassion positive Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. Arthur Schopenhauer firefly atheist spiritual Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. Arthur Schopenhauer money sympathy relationship Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer sleep silly morning Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. Arthur Schopenhauer world-suffering pain intelligent Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. Arthur Schopenhauer tasks thinking Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other. Arthur Schopenhauer pain animal believe What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. Arthur Schopenhauer fate stupid people In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death. Arthur Schopenhauer solace study world We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor. Arthur Schopenhauer errors views numbers The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. Arthur Schopenhauer miserable happiness way Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night. Arthur Schopenhauer torches space night Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means to any ends whatsoever. They can therefore be used for vivisection, hunting, coursing, bullfights, and horse racing, and can be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy carts of stone. Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun! Arthur Schopenhauer horse struggle christian One should use common words to say uncommon things Arthur Schopenhauer use common writing The Universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too. Arthur Schopenhauer dreamer dream character Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies. Arthur Schopenhauer strong-women philosophical enemy There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. Arthur Schopenhauer men believe death There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. Arthur Schopenhauer global-warming opinion men Scoundrels are always sociable. Arthur Schopenhauer sociable scoundrels human-condition
