Quote by Alain de Botton

“Schopenhauer says, ‘a man can do what he will, but not will as he will.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“But to such a man as Schopenhauer,—one who considered five sixths of the population to be knaves or blockheads, and who had thought out…

— Edgar Saltus

“Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can’t be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life’s a mixture of suffering and…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid of once…

— Abhaidev

“They trust in anything that verifies their importance as persons, tribes, societies, and particularly as a species that will endure in this world and…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER”

— John Green

“This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn how little the cleverest and most…

— Isaiah Berlin

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer”

— Richard Bliss Brooke

“The egoist feels lonely, surrounded by threatening and alien events; all his desires are sunk in his own concerns. A kind person lives in…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment,” he wrote. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep…

— Walter Isaacson

“Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner – an empty vessel -…

— Abhijit Naskar

“The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.”

— Mary Wollstonecraft