Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Heart
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A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands and thousands of years of non-existence: he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that it cannot be true.
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It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.
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If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
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Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.
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Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
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If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
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Many undoubtedly owe their good fortune to the circumstance that they possess a pleasing smile with which they win hearts. Yet these hearts would do better to beware and to learn from Hamlet's tables that one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.
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All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.
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On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.
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In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
- Born: February 22, 1788
- Died: September 21, 1860
- Occupation: Philosopher
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