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
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.
Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.
Patriotism is the passion of fools and the most foolish of passions.
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
I love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.
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.
Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.
Honour is external conscience, and conscience is inward honour.
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
Motives are causes experienced from within.
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.