Quotes Tagged With :schopenhauer

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two....

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

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is....

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

Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts,....

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.

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused.....

[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever....

....and I gazed at these forms incomprehensible to me, but which revealed the immortal thoughts of the....