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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Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.
To desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably received at first.
Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
To become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.
Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
My body and my will are one.
A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Pantheism is only a polite form of atheism.