Compassion is the basis of all morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of morality.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Death is the true inspiring genius, or the muse of philosophy, wherefore Socrates has defined the latter as θανάτου μελέτη. Indeed, without death men would scarcely philosophize.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late look upon it as the quintessence of life and to a certain extent sacred.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth every fresh morning a little youth every going to rest and sleep a little death.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.

— Arthur Schopenhauer