Arthur Schopenhauer — "The price of glory is the loss of leisure."
The price of glory is the loss of leisure.
The price of glory is the loss of leisure.
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
"The greatest wisdom is to know oneself."
"The animal enjoys the present, man is tormented by the future."
"Life is a constant dying."
"The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time."
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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