We should not pretend to be what we are not. The pretense of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion the result, indeed the measure and control of truth, is intolerable and such a philosophy, tied to the established religion like a dog to a chain, is only the vexatious caricature of the highest and noblest endeavor of mankind.


Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

We should not pretend to be what we are not. The pretense of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion...

We should not pretend to be what we are not. The pretense of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion...

We should not pretend to be what we are not. The pretense of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion...

We should not pretend to be what we are not. The pretense of the impartial investigation of truth, with the resolve to make the established religion...