"A man can surely do what he wills……" — Arthur Schopenhauer
"A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
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458 Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer has 458 quotes on this site.
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Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine.
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There are two things which make it impossible to believe that this world is the successful work of an all-wise,…
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Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
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Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.
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Suicide may also be regarded as an experiment - a question which man puts to Nature, trying to force her…
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Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
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It is, indeed, only in old age that intellectual men attain their sublime expression, whilst portraits of them in their…
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A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a…
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The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of…
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Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine…
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The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the…
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The present is the only reality and the only certainty.
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One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real…
— Stephen Hawking
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You can clear the land, plow the field, spread the fertilizer, and plant the corn. But you cannot make it…
— Melody Beattie
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The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a…
— Henri Matisse
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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I told myself: 'I am surrounded by unknown things.' I imagined man without ears, suspecting the existence of sound as…
— Guy de Maupassant
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Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad…
— Milan Kundera
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Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and…
— Dalai Lama
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The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the…
— Richard Paul Evans
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and…
— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Being the best men or women to those, we only wish, to see ourselves grow in life with doesn't always…
— Lucas Hunter
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One sheet of paper cannot determine my future.
— Pratik Kc
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