Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as…

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of…

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another but women are by nature enemies…

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed…

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret…

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life…

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them…

Hatred is an affair of the heart contempt that of the head…

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a…

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a…

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win…

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection…