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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.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, World, Misery

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Anger, Philosophical, Heart
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, Oxford University Press

In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Men, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Understanding, Promise
"The World as Will and Idea".

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Taken, Heart, Tears
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.46, 谷月社

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wisdom, Philosophical, Heart

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Men, Years
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Winning, May
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.95, Publishdrive

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, Path, Action
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “the Wisdom of Life: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.65, 谷月社

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Heart, World, Want

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophy, Heart, Fate
Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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