BiographyType: Philosopher Born: 22 February 1788 Died: 21 September 1860 Arthur Schopenhauer was 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 philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Eastern philosophy (e.g., asceticism, the world-as-appearance), having initially arrived at similar conclusions as the result of his own philosophical work. His writing on aesthetics, morality, and psychology would exert important influence on thinkers and artists throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. |
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
Lesen heißt mit einem fremden Kopfe, statt des eigenen, denken.
Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us.
(...) a ingenuidade se mantém como a indumentária de honra do gênio, assim como a nudez é a da beleza.
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties
Heiraten heißt das Mögliche t(h)un, einander zum Ekel zu werden.
(Marrying means doing whatever possible to become repulsed of each other.)
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
El hombre puede, acaso, hacer lo que quiere; pero no puede querer lo que quiere".
Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing
that it philosophizes.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
Bei gleicher Umgebung lebt doch jeder in einer anderen Welt.
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