“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
“As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out, Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“I am only astonished that, while so many women have intelligent things to say and so many men are still unknown, a… — Luce Irigaray Copy Share Image
“The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to… — Will Durant 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
Mann was profoundly influenced by two philosophers, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, who returned to the most ancient of all philosophical questions - "How… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly… — Philip Kitcher 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
“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
“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been accomplished, the… — Thomas Ligotti 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
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauer’s saying, ‘A man can do what he wants,… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
It's as if, for Schopenhauer and perhaps Kant, the mind is there up and running, equipped with its categories and concepts that… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
“That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliage. You… — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and… — Julian Young 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
“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
“What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
“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
“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
“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
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes 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
“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
“Often they descended to their grave with an ironic smile – for what was there left of them to bury! Only the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other… — Paul Strand Copy Share Image
“creature on earth seemed to Schopenhauer to be equally committed to an equally meaningless existence: Contemplate the restless industry of wretched little… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.” — Irvine Welsh 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
“My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“There is only one inborn error: and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. Arthur Schopenhauer” — Clive Hamilton Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's break with Schopenhauer rests on precisely this point; it is a matter of knowing whether the will is unitary or multiple. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
