Arthur Schopenhauer — "The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and …"
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
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"The more a man has in himself, the less he will want from others."
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and a…"
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
"The truest philosophy is to learn to live with what is."
"Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
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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