Schopenhauer Quote by John Green

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. Man can do what he wills but he…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Man is what he wills himself to be.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“There is only one inborn error: and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy. Arthur Schopenhauer”

— Clive Hamilton

“It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— Richard Bliss Brooke

“As German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer pointed out, Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will. (One can choose…

— Christopher Ryan

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

— Marcus du Sautoy

“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 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

“Talent hits a target that no one else can hit,” wrote the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. “Genius hits a target no one else can…

— Walter Isaacson

“Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of resurrection. —ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER, German philosopher”

— Bernd Heinrich