#schopenhauer

#schopenhauer

In his lectures, Fichte characterized genius as 'divine' and madness as 'animal,' but Schopenhauer, who was no stranger to mental illness, suspected the two to be intertwined.

Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, unfortunately, didn't have much to offer us in his consolations about death, but, more importantly, he succeeded in helping us believe that life was worth living, even if this was somewhat unintended; he was a nihilist through and through. Philosopher David Bather Woods, in his new book Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy's Greatest Pessimist, chronicles Schopenhauer's life and thought in a manner resembling a parable.

Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature... What he saw was not the world, but himself writ large.