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
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
A man can surely do what he wills to do, but cannot determine what he wills.
Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure
Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.