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“What a bad conscience religion must have is to be judged by the fact that it is forbidden under pain of such severe punishment to mock it.
- On Religion”
― The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
- On Religion”
― The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
“Sometimes the loss from taking a wrong action is less than the loss from taking no action.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
“If he has a soul above the common, or if he is a man of genius, he will occasionally feel like some noble prisoner of state, condemned to work in the galleys with common criminals; and he will follow his example and try to isolate himself.”
― Studies in Pessimism
― Studies in Pessimism
“The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.... All laughter then is occasioned by a paradox.... This, briefly stated, is the true explanation of the ludicrous.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume II
“Accordingly, the loss of the beloved one through a rival, or through death, is the greatest pain of all to those passionately in love; just because it is of a transcendental nature, since it affects him not merely as an individual, but also assails him in his essentia aeterna, in the life of the species, in whose special will and service he was here called. This is why jealousy is so tormenting and bitter, and the giving up of the loved one the greatest of all sacrifices.”
― Essays of Schopenhauer
― Essays of Schopenhauer
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