Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Wikipedia
Born: February 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland
Died: September 21, 1860 (age 72 years), Free City of Frankfurt
Influenced by: Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, and more
Influenced: Sigmund Freud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Irvin D. Yalom, and more
Parents: Johanna Schopenhauer and Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer
Siblings: Adele Schopenhauer
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May 12, 2003 · Arthur Schopenhauer was among the first 19th century philosophers to contend that at its core, the universe is not a rational place.
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Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy ...