Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about War

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Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a

Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred years, to become the basis of their morality and of a remarkable contempt for death, and also to inspire them to bloody wars and the most extensive conquests. In this book we find the saddest and poorest form of theism. Much may be lost in translation, but I have not been able to discover in it one single idea of value.

Arthur Schopenhauer

War, Book, Years

"The World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by E. Payne, Vol. II, Ch. XVII, 1958.

Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain, War, Animal

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.214, Oxford University Press

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religious, War, Native American

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “Religion”, p.55, Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Arthur Schopenhauer

War, Men, Pessimism

Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.

Arthur Schopenhauer

War, Men, Milk And Honey

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Arthur Schopenhauer

War, Passion, Desire

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, Thou shalt make no graven image.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religious, War, Jealous

"Religion: A Dialogue" by Arthur Schopenhauer,

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about War

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