“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it… — Christopher Janaway Copy Share Image
“You say you're a pessimist, but I happen to know that you're in the habit of practicing your flute for two hours… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
“By conceiving of love as biologically inevitable, key to the continuation of the species, Schopenhauer's theory of the will invites us to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“I bear within me the seed, the rudiments, the possibility of life's capacities and endeavors. Where might I be, if I were… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“... life may be compared to a piece of embroidery, of which, during the first half of his time, a man gets… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.” — alain de botton Copy Share Image
“By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had… — Edgar Saltus Copy Share Image
“Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“Everyone endeavours to eliminate through the other individual his own weaknesses, defects, and deviations from the type, lest they be perpetuated or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
