Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about Compassion

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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

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Positive, Philosophical, Compassion

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Animal, Men, Compassion

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.98, Publishdrive

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Friendship, Compassion, Animal

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.8, Publishdrive

For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Motivation, Compassion, Effort

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion, Opposites, Feelings

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1995). “On the Basis of Morality”, p.169, Hackett Publishing