Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Common people are merely intent on spending time - whoever has some talent, on making use of it.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion is the basis of all morality

— Arthur Schopenhauer