Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes about Desire

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Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Confusion, Desire, Probability

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.32, Publishdrive

Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Sacrifice, Men, Desire

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.94, Publishdrive

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Wish, Desire, Satisfaction

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Arthur Schopenhauer

Mistake, Desire, Immortality

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Men, Desire

To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Errors, Forever, Desire

1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

Sexual passion is the cause of war and the end of peace, the basis of what is serious... and consequently the concentration of all desire

Arthur Schopenhauer

War, Passion, Desire

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Idea”, p.311, Arthur Schopenhauer

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hands, Wish, Desire

Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.31, 谷月社