“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
"Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Belief
"Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Balance
"Compassion is the basis of morality."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Compassion
"Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Hope
"It is at the moment of death that humanity has value."
- Archer
Philosophy
"Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it’s enough to start a war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife."
- Paine
Philosophy
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves."
- Eric Sevareid
Philosophy
"Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!"
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Philosophy
"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."
- G.K. Chesterton
Philosophy