"It is a clumsy experiment to make;..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.
More by Arthur Schopenhauer
“To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.”
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
“Man shows his character best in trifles.”
More on Existence
“We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this.”
“Why does life feel, to us as we experience it, so desperately urgent and so utterly pointless at the same time?”
“These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”
More on Consciousness
“It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.”
“Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.”
“Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.”