“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“What was it that led the Cynics to repudiate pleasure in any form, if it was not the fact that pain is,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“a lack of love: between a man and a woman is the announcement that what they might produce would only be a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of personal happiness and the production of healthy children are two radically contrasting projects, which love maliciously confuses us into… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients,… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, the struggle with that sentinel is, as a rule, not so hard as it may seem from a long way off,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
