Arthur Schopenhauer on Justice
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, catalogued under justice, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #204239: "In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties."
Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #211234: "Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word."
4 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Justice
"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties."
"Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word."
"So that it will be found that the fundamental fault in the character of women is that they have no “sense of justice .” This arises from their deficiency in the power of reasoning already referred to, and reflection, but is also partly due to the fact that Nature has not destined them, as the weaker sex, to be dependent on strength but on cunning; this is why they are instinctively crafty, and have an ineradicable tendency to lie."
"Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to no one, encroach on no man's rights; he will rather have regard for every one, forgive every one, help every one as far as he can, and all his actions will bear the stamp of justice and loving-kindness. … In former times the English plays used to finish with a petition for the King. The old Indian dramas close with these words: "May all living beings be delivered from pain." Tastes differ; but in my opinion there is no more beautiful prayer than this."