Quotes Tagged With :schopenhauer

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn....

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

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

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

The will has no overall purpose, aims at no highest good, and can never be satisfied. Although it is....

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

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

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

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....