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Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the last German to be really reckoned with. He is not a mere local or rational phenomenon, but a European event like Goethe, Hegel and Heine.

Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a maliciously ingenious attempt to adduce the great self-affirmations of the "will to life," life's forms of exuberance in favor of a nihilistic total depreciation of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Dürer's knight with Death and the Devil: hard iron gaze, alone with horse and hound, without any hope — but he wanted the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) gave ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠us his man, who voluntarily takes on the suffering of being truthful, which destroys his own wilfulness and prepares the complete conversion of his being that is the real meaning of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) was ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠so ruled by Christian values that once the thing-in-itself stopped being God it had to be bad and stupid — he could not imagine the endless ways of being different, even of being God.