Arthur Schopenhauer — "The greatest absurdity is to think that women are capable of artistic or scienti…"
The greatest absurdity is to think that women are capable of artistic or scientific production. They are not.
The greatest absurdity is to think that women are capable of artistic or scientific production. They are not.
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"The only certain antidote to the fear of death is the knowledge that we are already dead."
"Women are the causa secondaria, the secondary cause, of the continuation of the species."
"The only original philosophical thought is that life is not worth living."
"All religions are born of fear and are the children of darkness."
"The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a co…"
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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