The power of religious dogma, when inculcated early, is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity.
works Of Arthur Schopenhauerby arthur Schopenhauer
Behind the cross stands the devil.
Better alone than amongst traitors.
Therefore it has always been said that music is the language of feeling and of passion, as words are the language of reason.
Our greatest pleasure consists in being admired; but those who admire us, even if they have every reason to do so, are slow to express their sentiments. Hence he is the happiest man who, no matter how, manages sincerely to admire himself – so long as other people leave him alone.
The life of a fool is worse than death.
As Epictetus says, men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud.
He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear.
To such an one we speak as those who are like us have spoken to us, and have so become our comfort in the wilderness of this life.
