Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live.
Arthur SchopenhauerThus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
Arthur SchopenhauerMen are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
Arthur SchopenhauerThere is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its painโฆ Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Arthur Schopenhauer