ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER QUOTES
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment -- a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her to answer. The question is this: What change will death produce in a man’s existence and in his insight into the nature of things? It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, "On Women," Studies in Pessimism
Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim and object. Starting from this, everyone then believes he has the most legitimate claim to happiness and enjoyment. If, as usually happens, these do not fall to his lot, he believes that he suffers an injustice, in fact that he misses the whole point of his existence.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, The World As Will and Representation
Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, "On the Suffering of the World," Essays and Aphorisms
Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Essays and Aphorisms
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Parerga and Paralipomena
Only loss teaches us about the value of things.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
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