Desire Quote by Philip Kitcher

“Schopenhauer once put it, we insist on living our lives "with great interest and much solicitude as long as possible, just as we blow…

— Mari Ruti

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

All Life needs for life is possible to will.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is our essence, it strikes us…

— Christopher Janaway

There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet,…

— James Salter

“God is dead,” wrote Mainländer, “and His death was the life of the world.” Once the great individuation had been accomplished, the momentum of…

— Thomas Ligotti

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides…

— Oscar Wilde

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides…

— Aldyna Threesya

Once munching has begun, Schopenhauer held, the human will cannot resist further munching, and the result is a universe with crumbs over everything.

— Woody Allen

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of…

— Anna Quindlen

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

— Michel Houellebecq

“creature on earth seemed to Schopenhauer to be equally committed to an equally meaningless existence: Contemplate the restless industry of wretched little ants ……

— Alain de Botton