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
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.
Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
To repeat abstractly, universally, and distinctly in concepts the whole inner nature of the world , and thus to deposit it as a reflected image in permanent concepts always ready for the faculty of reason , this and nothing else is philosophy.
Authority and example lead the world.
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.
The world is my representation
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.