A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Arthur Schopenhauer
German - Philosopher
February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the morality is blemished.

Kedar Joshi

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

Sam Harris

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

...idea at play here is that of “morality.” When young women are taught about morality, there’s not often talk of compassion, kindness, courage, or integrity. There is, however, a lot of talk about hymens

Jessica Valenti

Some people have proposed universal basic income, UBI, basically making sure that everybody gets a certain amount of money to live off of. I think that's a wonderful idea. The problem is, we haven't been able to guarantee universal healthcare in this country.

Oren Etzioni

Only when all your desires disappear does that energy become compassion, KARUNA. You cannot cultivate compassion. When you are desireless, compassion happens; your whole energy moves into compassion. And this movement is very different. Desire has a motivation in it, a goal; compassion is nonmotivated, there is no goal to it, it is simply overflowing energy.

Rajneesh

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Emile Durkheim

There are those who believe that a new modernity demands a new morality. What they fail to consider is the harsh reality that there is no such thing as a new morality. There is only one morality . All else is immorality.

Theodore Roosevelt

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Make the Universal personal and you become richer, wiser and stronger. Make the personal Universal and you will find freedom, compassion and love

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Even a total and universal disarmament does not guarantee the maintenance of peace.

Ludwig Quidde

If everyone sincerely practices the path of compassion and wisdom, all their problems will be solved. I guarantee this.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Frans de Waal

The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.