Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauerwas a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, in which he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind, insatiable, and malignant metaphysical will. Proceeding from the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism, rejecting the contemporaneous post-Kantian philosophies of German idealism. Schopenhauer was among the first thinkers in Western...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 February 1788
CountryGermany
Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it
The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped
Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
Man should think like few do and talk like the many others.
The middle ages showed us the results of thinking without experimentation, our present centuryshows us what experimentation without thinking leads to.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.
First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident
Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
Nothing is to be had for gold but mediocrity
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher