Arthur Schopenhauer — "With women, nature has made a blunder."
With women, nature has made a blunder.
With women, nature has made a blunder.
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"The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary."
"The world is a machine for grinding out suffering."
"The pleasure of reading a book is heightened by the knowledge that it is not a new book."
"The only sure way not to be miserable is not to be born."
"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
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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