Mitleid mit den Thieren hängt mit der Güte des Charakters so genau zusammen, daß man zuversichtlich behaupten darf, wer gegen Thiere grausam ist, könne kein guter Mensch seyn.


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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a s...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same t...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the...
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.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their domini...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Music is the melody whose text is the world.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's d...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; ho...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of t...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their differen...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary w...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource prid...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alte...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.
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