Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatur… - Arthur Schopenhauer

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and stamp of your whole manner of thinking, and have arrived at just the moment it was needed ; thus it will stay firmly and forever lodged in your mind.

The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings[1]

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?