Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time, all-powerful Being; firstly, the misery which abounds in it everywhere; and secondly, the obvious imperfection of its highest product, man, who is a burlesque of what he should be.


"On the Sufferings of the World" - Parerga and Paralipomena (1851) - Studies in Pessimism

On the Sufferings of the World


There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time,...

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time,...

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time,...

There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise, all-good, and, at the same time,...