Will
Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words such as "desire," "striving," "wanting," "effort," and "urging." Schopenhauer's philosophy holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life. It is through the will that mankind finds all their suffering. Desire for more is what causes this suffering.
Read more about this topic: The World As Will And Representation
Famous quotes containing the word will:
“All “it was” is a fragment, a riddle, a horrible accident—until the creative will declares: “But thus I willed it!”MUntil the creative will declares: “But thus I will it! Thus shall I will it!””
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The question for the country now is how to secure a more equal distribution of property among the people. There can be no republican institutions with vast masses of property permanently in a few hands, and large masses of voters without property.... Let no man get by inheritance, or by will, more than will produce at four per cent interest an income ... of fifteen thousand dollars] per year, or an estate of five hundred thousand dollars.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“For to those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 13:12.