Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Animal, Agony

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.29, Publishdrive

• Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Men, Compassion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.98, Publishdrive

• Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every idea at once go straight back to themselves. Astrology refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego; it also establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and the squabbles and rascalities on earth.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Astrology, Heaven

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

• The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Doe, Earth

• Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Eye, Men, Errors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

• Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Life, Mind, Earth

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.438, Kshetra Books

• As the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Past, Errors, Age

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.129, Penguin UK

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