Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he…

The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to survive in…

— Julian Young

“In the second Unzeitgemäße Betrachtung Nietzsche speaks about “individuals who form a kind of bridge over the wild stream of becoming” and live in…

— Heinrich Meier

“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed…

— Will Durant

“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us…

— Christopher Janaway

“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours every evening.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It follows from Schopenhauer’s analysis that evert genuine work of art must have its origin in direct perception; that is to say it does…

— Bryan Magee

The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out…

— Philip Kitcher

It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that it then…

— David E. Cooper

“Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.”

— John Gray

I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants, but not…

— Albert Einstein

“It would be easy, however, to exaggerate the havoc wrought by such artificial conditions. The monotony we observe in mankind must not be charged…

— George Santayana

“By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to adopt a…

— Alain de Botton

“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were not here?…

— Thomas Mann

Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How to live?"…

— Philip Kitcher

Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann…

— Philip Kitcher