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Arthur Schopenhauer

Essays of Schopenhauer

  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    The extraordinarily active zeal with which the clergy of monotheistic religions attack suicide is not supported either by the Bible or by any valid reasons
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Christianity's inmost truth is that suffering (the Cross) is the real purpose of life; hence it condemns suicide as thwarting this end, while the ancients, from a lower point of view, approved of it, nay, honoured it.
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Is Hamlet's monologue the meditation of a criminal? He merely states that considering the nature of the world, death would be certainly preferable, if we were sure that by it we should be annihilated
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Aristotle says "Suicide is a wrong against the State, although not against the person;"
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    We are told that suicide is an act of the greatest cowardice, that it is only possible to a madman, and other absurdities of a similar nature; or they make use of the perfectly senseless expression that it is "wrong," while it is perfectly clear that no one has such indisputable right over anything in the world as over his own person and life.
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    As far as I can see, it is only the followers of monotheistic, that is of Jewish, religions that regard suicide as a crime.
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Meanwhile, as has been explained above, wicked thoughts and worthless endeavours gradually leave their traces on the face, and especially the eyes. Therefore, judging by physiognomy, we can easily guarantee that a man will never produce an immortal work; but not that he will never commit a great crime.
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    The doctor sees mankind in all its weakness; the lawyer in all its wickedness; the theologian in all its stupidity
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    Man even surpasses all the lower order of animals in his capacity for being trained. Mohammedans are trained to pray five times a day with their faces turned towards Mecca; and they do it regularly. Christians are trained to make the sign of the Cross on certain occasions, and to bow, and so forth; so that religion on the whole is a real masterpiece of training—that is to say, it trains people what they are to think; and the training, as is well known, cannot begin too early. There is no absurdity, however palpable it may be, which may not be fixed in the minds of all men, if it is inculcated before they are six years old by continual and earnest repetition. For it is the same with men as with animals, to train them with perfect success one must begin when they are very young
  • Samir Đokovićalıntı yaptı4 yıl önce
    The course and affairs of our individual life, in view of their true meaning and connection, are like a piece of crude work in mosaic. So long as one stands close in front of it, one cannot correctly see the objects presented, or perceive their importance and beauty; it is only by standing some distance away that both come into view.
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