Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes. Below is a collection of famous Arthur Schopenhauer quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer. Share these quotations with your friends and family.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

By Arthur Schopenhauer
I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

By Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

By Arthur Schopenhauer
'All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.'

By Arthur Schopenhauer
'[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror...'

By Arthur Schopenhauer