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
Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.
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.