Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Born: February 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland

Died: September 21, 1860, Free City of Frankfurt

Parents: Johanna Schopenhauer

Education: University of Jena, University of Göttingen

Thoughts Of Schopenhauer

"Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection. That is why even people who were indifferent to one another rejoice so much when they meet again after twenty or thirty years."

"Money is human happiness in abstracto; consequently he who is no longer capable of happiness in concreto sets his whole heart on money."

"The happiness we received from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings."

"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his don Quixote in a miserable prison."

"Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability."

"There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand."

"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."

"As Voltaire says, we shall leave this world as foolish and as wicked as we found it on our arrival."