Arthur Schopenhauer

"Compassion is the basis of all morality"

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible"

"They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"After your death, you will be what you were before your birth."

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

"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."

"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."

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

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it."

"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"

"One should use common words to say uncommon things"

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

"Compassion is the basis of morality."

"Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure"

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

"A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man"

"Qualsiasi uomo notevole, chiunque cioè non appartenga a quei 5/6 dell'umanità dotati tanto miseramente dalla natura, rimarrà dopo i quarant'anni difficilmente esente da una certa traccia di misantropia."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."