Life Quote by Mari Ruti

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

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

— Irvine Welsh

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

— John Green

“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

“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

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

— Richard Bliss Brooke

“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

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

— Bernd Heinrich

“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

“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

Schopenhauer's thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann…

— Philip Kitcher

“My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might have become…

— Anton Chekhov