“Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.Arthur Schopenhauer
“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
“Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.Arthur Schopenhauer
“Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a connection between the comets in heaven and squabbles and rascalities on earth.Arthur Schopenhauer
“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.Arthur Schopenhauer