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
Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.
Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.
The bad thing about all religions is that, instead of being able to confess their allegorical nature, they have to conceal it.
I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
First it is ridiculed,Second it is violently opposed,-finally it is accepted as self evident
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Man should think like few do and talk like the many others.