Arthur Schopenhauer — "The more a man is a man, the less he is a woman."
The more a man is a man, the less he is a woman.
The more a man is a man, the less he is a woman.
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"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
"The more intelligent a man is, the more pain he will experience."
"The truth is that we are all born mad. Some remain so."
"We often find that people are most insolent and arrogant where they have least reason to be so."
"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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