Modern Quote by Oscar Wilde

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“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

“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

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

— John Green

“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

“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

“For Marx, the only thing that motivates humans is money. For Freud, it’s libido. And for Schopenhauer, it is the blind metaphysical will. All…

— Abhaidev

We tend to think of Hamlet as one of the wisest, most intellectually prodigious characters in all of literature. Which he is, but there's…

— Norah Vincent

I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

— Anonymous

The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out…

— Philip Kitcher

“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