Quotes About Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer was right: Life has to be about disillusionment stumbling inexorably towards the totally fucked.

Schopenhauer was right. It's all that blind will to prolong the human tragedy.

Šopenhauer i Ni?e su prvi u?ili o dubokom zna?enju besmislenosti života, i pokazali kako ta besmislenost može da se pretvori u umetnost...Užasna praznina koju su otkrili jeste upravo bezdušna i nepomu?ena lepota materije.

A man who has no mental needs, because his intellect is of the narrow and normal amount, is, in the strict sense of the word, what is called a philistine.

Now we can understand Schopenhauer when he said that mankind was apparently doomed to vacillate eternally between the two extremes of distress and boredom. In actual fact, boredom is now causing, and certainly bringing to psychiatrists, more problems to solve than distress.

Human existence must be a kind of error. It is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens." My own philosophy was a little cheerier than Schopenhauer's

Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors

Schopenhauer says somewhere that if the entire universe should vanish the only thing left would be music.

Who was that lad they used to try to make me read at Oxford? Ship- Shop- Schopenhauer. That's the name. A grouch of the most pronounced description.

Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can't be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life's a mixture of suffering and boredom. You've

Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer.

Kant's greatest merit," says Schopenhauer, "is the distinction of the phenomenon from the thing-in-itself.

The first was that of ignorance. It consists in not knowing, not understanding, that life is an evil and an absurdity. People of this sort -- chiefly women, or very young or very dull people -- have not yet understood that question of life which presented itself to Schopenhauer, Solomon, and Buddha.

Schopenhauer extended the same idea by favouring real observation over erudition, and stated confidently that the second sapped the first.

Schopenhauer noted, are unmistakable signs that one has made peace with the world and that one is willing to perpetuate the social order.71

This is everything I wanted, so why am I not happy? So what was Schopenhauer's answer? Well, if wanting things was the problem, the answer had to be in giving things up. In his language, the cause of suffering is intensity of will.

If we are to believe Schopenhauer, women are incapable of romantic love and merely use man's love hunger as bait to fish babies out of the treacherous sea of matrimony. Of course Schopenhauer, who threw a female servant down a flight of stairs, and was intimate with numerous women he hated philosophically, is no unbiased witness to woman's unfathomable treachery.

Nul ne peut voir par-dessus soi, écrit Schopenhauer pour faire comprendre l'impossibilité d'un échange d'idées entre deux individus d'un niveau intellectuel trop différent.

Lo terrible es hasta qué punto ya no se puede decir nada... Nietzsche, Schopenhauer y Spinoza no serían aceptados hoy. Lo políticamente correcto, con la magnitud que ha adquirido, hace inaceptable casi toda la filosofía occidental. Hay cada vez más cosas sobre las que es imposible pensar. Es aterrador.

el origen primero de cualquier filosofía es la conciencia de una brecha, de una incertidumbre en nuestro conocimiento del mundo. La filosofía de Schopenhauer es en primer lugar un comentario acerca de las condiciones del conocimiento; una epistemología.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

Entweder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Hegels, oder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Schopenhauers. Tertium non datur.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.