Arthur Schopenhauer Quote

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.


Essays and Aphorisms (ed. Penguin UK, 2004) - ISBN: 9780141921754


Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or...

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or...

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or...

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or...