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 tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
No doubt, when modesty was made a virtue, it was a very advantageous thing for the fools, for everybody is expected to speak of himself as if he were one.
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.
Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.
The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
...it is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish;
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.
A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
One man is more concerned with the impression he makes on the rest of mankind, another with the impression the rest of mankind makes on him.
Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.