“The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.” — alain de botton Copy Share Image
“Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Life was indeed cruel; but it was better to glorify the Will than deny it.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
“Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.” — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
Schopenhauer had been Hitler's philosophical god in the early days. In power it was Nietzsche. — Ernst Hanfstaengl Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer on Hegel: "A flat-headed, insipid, nauseating, illiterate charlatan.” — Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER” — John Green Copy Share Image
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to… — Albert Einstein 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
“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
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, German philosopher” — Bernd Heinrich 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
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch… — p g wodehouse 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
“Our common preference as a species is for difference rather than unity. (Vive la différence. Vive la guerre.) Nobody designed us to… — Thomas Ligotti 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
“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
“Schopenhauer has a metaphor for human closeness. He writes about cold porcupines who have to snuggle up to keep warm, but if… — Brenda Walker 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 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
“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
“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
“It is the right of art to consider an impression valid simply as an impression and to accept it as something entire… — Leo Baeck 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 do not believe in free will. Schopenhauer's words: 'Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills,'… — Albert Einstein 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
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
“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —Arthur Schopenhauer” — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer says, ‘a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.” — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
“we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can’t be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life’s a mixture of… — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Talent hits a target that no one else can hit,” wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. “Genius hits a target no one… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”… — Summer McStravick Copy Share Image
