Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

Cited by

• Jim Holt (1)
  • IN: Why Does the World Exist? (2012) Non-Fiction, Cosmology, American
    EPIGRAPH: A man finds himself, to his great astonishment, suddenly existing, after thousands of years of non-existence; he lives for a little while; and then, again, comes an equally long period when he must exist no more. The heart rebels against this, and feels that is cannot be true.
    FROM: "The Vanity of Existence", (1913), Book, Germany
• Teddy Wayne (1)
  • IN: Loner (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Man can indeed do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wants.
    FROM: Essay on the Freedom of the Will, (1839), Essay, Germany
• Elizabeth Berg (1)
  • IN: The Last Time I Saw You (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Every parting gives a foretaste of death as every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
    FROM: Counsels and Maxims, (1851), Book, Germany
• John Green (1)
  • IN: Turtles All The Way Down (2017) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.
    FROM: On the Freedom of the Will, (1839), Essay, Germany