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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A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man
Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
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.
Life is a constant process of dying.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it
Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
For, after all, the foundation of our whole nature, and, therefore, of our happiness, is our physique, and the most essential factor in happiness is health, and, next in importance after health, the ability to maintain ourselves in independence and freedom from care.