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Arthur Schopenhauer
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Definition:[1788 - 1860]a German philosopher who believed that a person's actions are driven primarily by their wills and desires, and that all actions have a motivation. Einstein paraphrased his views as follows: "Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants."
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Schopenhauer was more true. His doctrine and that of the Church started from common premises. He, too, based his system on the vileness of the world; he, too, like the author of the Imitation of Christ, uttered that grievous outcry: “Truly life on earth is wretched.”
Joris-Karl Huysmans. À Rebours
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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As for Schopenhauer and Spencer, he treats them like small boys and slaps them on the shoulder in a fatherly way: 'Well, what do you say, old Spencer?' He has not read Spencer, of course, but how charming he is when with light, careless irony he says of his lady friend: 'She has read Spencer!'
Anton Chekhov. The Duel and Other Stories
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At one time, reading Schopenhauer, he put in place of his will the word love, and for a couple of days this new philosophy charmed him, till he removed a little away from it.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Yet I was so accustomed, ever since I first made their acquaintance, to consider his wife an unusual person with a thorough knowledge of Schopenhauer who had access to an intellectual milieu closed to her vulgar husband, that I was at first surprised when Saint-Loup remarked: “His wife is an idiot, you can have her; but he’s an excellent fellow, gifted and extremely agreeable,”
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 7]
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