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
What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.
We deceive and flatter no one by such delicate artificies as we do our own selves.
To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake
Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.
The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him.
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
JedeTrennung gibt einenVorgeschmack desTodesund jedes Wiedersehen einenVorgeschmack der Auferstehung. Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain… Music expresses only the quintessence of life and its events, never these themselves.
Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.
...a genuine work of art, can never be false, nor can it be discredited through the lapse of time, for it does not present an opinion but the thing itself.
The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others.
With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable...Healt h is by far the most important element in human happiness.