Quotes Tagged With :schopenhauer

It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh....

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will....

The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions....

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes....

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent....

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did:....

Schopenhauer said only men had the total objectivity necessary for genius, and that you only had to look....

NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the....

The essence of art is that its one case applies to thousands,' knew Schopenhauer.