Because Christian morality lea...

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 fro

Any book, which is at all impo...

Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately

Our religions will never at an...

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

The principle of contradiction...

The principle of contradiction establishes merely the agreement of concepts, but does not itself produce concepts.

In the whole world there is no...

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.

At bottom, every state regards...

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Indeed, intolerance is essenti...

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.

Monotheistic religions alone f...

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.

The deep pain that is felt

The deep pain that is felt
at the death of every friendly soul
arises from the feeling that there is
in every individual something
which is inexpressible,
peculiar to him alone,
and is, therefore,
absolutely and irretrievably lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer 03.03.2018 03:03:03 702 quotes

The first forty years of our l...

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

That the outer man is a pictur...

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.

It is only in the microscope t...

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Always to see the general in t...

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Money is human happiness in th...

Money is human happiness in the abstract.

A man can surely do what he wi...

A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.

You are free to do what you wa...

You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

There is no vice, of which a m...

There is no vice, of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excited so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbors, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor [can] humility mitigate.

Religions are like fireflies. ...

Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.

There are two things which mak...

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and at the same time, all-powerful being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.

Intellect is invisible to the ...

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.