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
Everybody's friend is nobody's.
Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?
Pride is generally censured and decried, but mainly by those who have nothing to be proud of.
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
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
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
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves to be like other people.
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.