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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In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.
Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.
There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.