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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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them.
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination.
Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.
The word of man is the most durable of all material.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.
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.
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
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.