Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?


Studies in pessimism. A series of essays... Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders... Third edition (ed. 1892)


If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much...

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much...

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much...

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much...