Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Crime

Quotes about: Crime

• There is no vice of which a man can be guilty, no meanness, no shabbiness, no unkindness, which excites so much indignation among his contemporaries, friends and neighbours, as his success. This is the one unpardonable crime, which reason cannot defend, nor humility mitigate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Friends, Humility, Men

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

• Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Unions, Facts, Quitting

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.83, Hackett Publishing

• Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing

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