Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes, Religious Quotes, War Quotes

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.

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Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.

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That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .

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Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

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Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

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Das Ganze der Erfahrung gleicht einer Geheimschrift und die Philosophie der Entzifferung derselben. The whole of experience is like a cryptograph, and philosophy is like the deciphering of it.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

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If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.

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You must treat a work of art like a great man: stand before it and wait patiently till it deigns to speak.

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It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

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History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

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Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

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That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

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A word too much always defeats its purpose.

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Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

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This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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