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Browse 1 quotations attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, catalogued under Science, with dates where available.

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Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer, entry #15043: "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 b…"

1 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer on Science

"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

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