Arthur Schopenhauer

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Born

22 February 1788

Died

21 September 1860

Works

550

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1788-02-22

Active to

1860-09-21

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Arthur Schopenhauer (* February 22, 1788, in Danzig; † September 21, 1860, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his work from 1818 titled 'The World as Will and Representation' (expanded in 1844), in which he describes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. Building on Immanuel Kant's transcendental idealism, Schopenhauer developed a metaphysical and ethical system without religious reference, rejecting the contemporary ideas of German idealism. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Arthur+Schopenhauer">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

• “It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that distinguishes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.”
• “The New Testament … must be in some way traceable to an Indian source: its ethical system, its ascetic view of morality, its pessimism, and its Avatar, are all thoroughly Indian. It is its morality which places it in a position of such emphatic and essential antagonism to the Old Testament, so that the story of the Fall is the only possible point of connection between the two.”
• “We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.”
• “If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man’s property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.”
• “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
• “Just as the witticism brings two very different real objects under one concept, the pun brings two different concepts, by the assistance of accident, under one word.”

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