Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

“The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.”

“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.”

“Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.”

“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”