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
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
There is something in us wiser than our head
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Scoundrels are always sociable.
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.
Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
It is only when a man is alone that he is really free.
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.
Sleep is to a man what winding up is to a clock.
A man may call to mind the face of his friend, but not his own. Here, then, is an initial difficulty in the way of applying the maxim, Know Thyself.
Man shows his character best in trifles.
There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.