Arthur Schopenhauer

German philosopher (1788–1860)

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher and writer. 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.

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We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.