Arthur Schopenhauer — "The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience."
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.
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"The intellect is a mere tool in the service of the will."
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
"We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."
"The only way to be happy is to not be born."
"The present is the only reality and the only certainty."
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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