Arthur Schopenhauer — "The more you leave a man to his own will, the more he will feel his own weakness…"
The more you leave a man to his own will, the more he will feel his own weakness.
Get This Quote & Author's Image Illustrated On:
Click any product to generate a realistic preview. Up to 3 at a time.
* Initial load can take up to 90 seconds — revising the preview in another color is nearly instant.
Kitchen
Apparel
Other
More from Arthur Schopenhauer
"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary."
"That the Negroes were enslaved more than other races, and on a large scale, is evidently a result of their being, in contrast to other races, less intelligent."
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
"The more intelligent a man is, the more pain he will experience."
"Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
About Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
German philosopher of pessimism whose The World as Will and Representation (1819) defined the suffering-and-renunciation tradition. Closely associated with Immanuel Kant (the system Schopenhauer built on and revised). For an intellectual contrast, see G.W.F. Hegel, German Idealist of the rational unfolding of Spirit — Schopenhauer scheduled his Berlin lectures opposite Hegel's and spent decades attacking Hegel's optimistic system as deliberately mystifying nonsense — the foundational rivalry of 19th-century German philosophy.
The standard scholarly entry points to Arthur Schopenhauer's work: Bryan Magee (Oxford, populariser-philosopher) — The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1983); Christopher Janaway (Southampton, Schopenhauer specialist) — Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy (1989); David E. Cartwright (Wisconsin–Whitewater) — Schopenhauer: A Biography (2010). These are the works graduate seminars cite when teaching Arthur Schopenhauer.
Verification
Unverifiable
Found in 1 providers: deepseek
1 source checked