Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes on Society

6 quotes

  1. We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

  2. In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

  3. There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

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

  5. There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.

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

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