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
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Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.
The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
Every nation criticizes every other one - and they are all correct.
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.
Motives are causes experienced from within.
Wealth as well as sea water. The more we drink, the more thirsty. The so famous
For an act to be moral the intention must be based on compassion, not duty. We do something because we want to do it, because we feel we have to do it, not because we ought to do it. And even if our efforts fail - or we never even get to implement them - we are still moral because our motivation was based on compassion.