Tao Te Ching

“That the world has no ethical significance but only a physical one is the greatest and most pernicious of errors, the fundamental error, the intrinsically perverse view... and despite all the religions which all assert the opposite, this fundamental error never quite dies out but raises its head again and again”

— Arthur Schopenhauer 1788 – 1860 CE via R. J. Hollingdale
from Essays and Aphorisms