Schopenhauer Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out… — Viggo Mortensen
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
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end… — Bryan Magee
If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set… — Ned Beauman
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to… — Edith Sitwell
I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts, from Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,… — Lebbeus Woods
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a… — Gertrude Stein
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you… — Paul Strand
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer
If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,… — Tom Hodgkinson
I am Plato's Republic. Mr. Simmons is Marcus. I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! And… — Ray Bradbury
There is a truth in Schopenhauerâ€™s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I do not at all believe in human freedom in the philosophical sense... Schopenhauerâ€™s saying, â€˜A man can do what he wants, but not will… — Albert Einstein
People keep a dog and are ruled by this dog, and even Schopenhauer was ruled in the end not by his head, but by his… — Thomas Bernhard
Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I… — Albert Einstein

Who Wrote These Schopenhauer Quotes

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