2017年8月25日 星期五

September 21: Arthur Schopenhauer


Considering the life and legacy of philosophy’s most famous pessimist.
A new series from the TLS, appraising the works and legacies of the great thinkers and philosophers.
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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
BornFebruary 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland
DiedSeptember 21, 1860, Frankfurt, Germany
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.

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