We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerRead
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Interpretation
Creating life is far more complex than destroying it.
This quote by Arthur Schopenhauer emphasizes the inherent value of creation over destruction. While a foolish act may easily extinguish life, the profound knowledge and skill required to create something as intricate as a living being showcases the intricacies of existence itself.
In practice
In a discussion about environmental conservation, this quote highlights the importance of preserving life over its destruction.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!
The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.
Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct.
If we are not even free anymore to decide something as basic as what we wish to eat or drink, how much freedom do we really have left?
hate blows a bubble of despair into hugeness world system universe and bang -fear buries a tomorrow under woe and up comes yesterday most green and young
We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
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