Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Silly, Doctors

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

• There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pain, Lying, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

• I am often surprised by the cleverness, and now and again by the stupidity, of my dog; and I have similar experiences with mankind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dog, Stupidity, Mankind

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.72, 谷月社

• Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Certain, Mankind, Absurdity

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  War, Men, Milk And Honey

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eye, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

• National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Country, Character, Names

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.44, Cosimo Classics

• NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Long, Mind, Generations

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The World as Will and Idea 1: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.7, 谷月社

• History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dream, Confused, Long

• One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Appearance, Impression

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