Arthur Schopenhauer Quote by Clive Hamilton

“Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.”

— Irvine Welsh

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world. —Arthur Schopenhauer”

— Marcus du Sautoy

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

— Richard Bliss Brooke

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

— John Green

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“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

“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope;…

— Vaclav Havel

“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

“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