Arthur Schopenhauer

academic

pessimism

nihilism

will

Friedrich Nietzsche

Immanuel Kant

G.W.F. Hegel

philosophy

light bulb joke

misogyny

Pete Davidson

Hinduism

Socrates

pendulum

existentialism

life

Jean-Paul Sartre

Slavoj Zizek

trolley problem

E.M. Cioran

fate

philosopher

resemblance

Karl Marx

Rene Descartes

thing-in-itself

suffering

shower

is first in modern thought to have emphasized the possibility of making the concept of life more fundamental and inclusive than that of force.

Schopenhauer who first, in modern thought, emphasized the possibility of making the concept of life more fundamental and inclusive than that of force; it is Bergson who in our own generation has taken up this idea, and has almost converted a sceptical world to it by the force of his sincerity and his eloquence.

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.

Schopenhauer 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.

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.

Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer, the last German worthy of consideration (who represents a European event like Goethe, like Hegel, like Heinrich Heine, and not merely a local event, a "national" one), is for a psychologist a first-rate case: namely, as a maliciously ingenious attempt to adduce in favor of a nihilistic total depreciation of life precisely the counter-instances, the great self-affirmations of the "will to life," life's forms of exuberance.

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