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
To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.
For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.
Mostly the loss teaches us only about the value of things.
It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.
For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
My body and my will are one.
The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.
The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.
The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.
A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities.
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
Human existence is an error...it is bad today and every day it gets worse, until the worst happens.