September 21: Arthur Schopenhauer

Times Literary Supplement

Considering the life and legacy of philosophy’s most famous pessimist.

Arthur Schopenhauer: the first European Buddhist

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Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will.Wikipedia

Born: February 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland

Died: September 21, 1860, Frankfurt, Germany

Influenced: Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, MORE

Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, MORE

Quotes

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.