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 man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.
The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted.
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which are hard to satisfy; that their satisfaction achieves nothing but a painless condition in which he is only given over to boredom . . .
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.