25 result(s) for Schopenhauer Quotes About Love.
"To marry means to do everything possible to become a burden to each other. "
"Nature achieves her ends by implanting in each individual an illusion which induces him to imagine the good of the species as his own."
"The fundamental motive of all the love intrigues…is really this: that the child to be born may possess such qualities…that is precisely what the whole drama turns upon."
"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."
"Thus nature misleads everyone into the device necessary for her purpose. The illusion strengthens the more the individual is intellectually limited and the more exclusively he belongs to nature."
"The basis of all love…is sexual…[Love] is accordingly either a more definite and precise determination, or merely a more vehement expression, of the sexual impulse in general."
"The ultimate aim of all love-affairs…is actually more important than all other aims in human life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it."
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"The higher the intellect and the clearer the consciousness, the greater is the burn caused by the fire of this affect"
"For, that insistent and piercing tone in the choice of another individual for the satisfaction of the sexual drive is quite inexplicable unless we assume that what is really at stake is the composition of the next generation."
"No one should marry unless he is quite sure that he will love no one else as long as he lives."
"The love of one individual for another…is…a cunning device of nature…to induce two individuals to burden themselves with all the sufferings which life has in store."
"A man will find that as he matures that desire for a mate outside of marriage will lessen simply due to the demands of his life."
"Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head."
"The objective, which is nature's immediate end, is attained when two individuals suited to each other physically and mentally, are paired for reproduction."
"To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils"
"But in the case of a love affair, the concern is with the coming into existence of a quite definite individual…whose existence was otherwise not contemplated."
"Love is merely the means, or rather the satisfaction of the instinct to procreate; and, as this is the case, it is really a matter of indifference what becomes of any individual, since nature is not concerned about him, the individual, but only about the maintenance of the species."
"Compassion is the basis of all morality."
"In the union which is based on reciprocal inclination and choice, the satisfaction of the individual is immediately combined with the attainment of nature’s end."
"Love is the will to procreate. The desire to possess the loved one is only a consequence of it."
"The love-potion, is really the will to live projected onto a new individual"
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"That such a clamorous and excitable element should enter our life, springing from the mere contemplation of bodies, - that is, from the most trivial side of things - seems laughable... But that nature can only attain its ends by implanting a certain illusion in the individual"
"The more eminent the individual is in other respects, the completer will be this illusion; it will concentrate all his powers on that aim."
"He who is honest is ever gentle."
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
