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
Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it
Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.
The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.
Human life must be some form of mistake.
Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.
The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.
Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.
A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.
Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.
Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.