Arthur Schopenhauer — "Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark."
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
Journalists are like dogs, when ever anything moves they begin to bark.
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"Human life, when viewed in its entirety, is a tragedy; but in its details it has the character of a comedy."
"The greatest possible value of life is zero."
"The greatest error of all is to try to be happy."
"Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society."
"Life is a constant process of dying."
German philosopher of pessimism whose The World as Will and Representation (1819) defined the suffering-and-renunciation tradition. Closely associated with Immanuel Kant (the system Schopenhauer built on and revised). For an intellectual contrast, see G.W.F. Hegel, German Idealist of the rational unfolding of Spirit — Schopenhauer scheduled his Berlin lectures opposite Hegel's and spent decades attacking Hegel's optimistic system as deliberately mystifying nonsense — the foundational rivalry of 19th-century German philosophy.
The standard scholarly entry points to Arthur Schopenhauer's work: Bryan Magee (Oxford, populariser-philosopher) — The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (1983); Christopher Janaway (Southampton, Schopenhauer specialist) — Self and World in Schopenhauer's Philosophy (1989); David E. Cartwright (Wisconsin–Whitewater) — Schopenhauer: A Biography (2010). These are the works graduate seminars cite when teaching Arthur Schopenhauer.
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