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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The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.