| 单词 | Schopenhauer |
| 例句 | At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzsche, naturally, I read all of those. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In Schopenhauer’s world view there is no God, no afterlife, no heaven, no redemption - just oblivion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Or picture George Eliot cornering Arthur Schopenhauer to challenge his argument that women are unsuited for artistic and intellectual greatness. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Having entered prison as an atheist with a moral-relativist bent, Genis next took up the problem of good and evil, scouring Pascal, Rousseau, Schopenhauer, “Crime and Punishment,” and Knut Hamsun’s “Hunger.” Prison Is a Great Place to Get Reading Done 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Besides, years ago, I had enjoyed some of Schopenhauer’s literary essays — “On Authorship,” “On Style”— and been particularly taken with his lively, aphoristic prose and his advocacy of clarity, simplicity and brevity when we write. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer, a lifelong misanthrope who lived by himself, thought that the only way to cope with the misery of existence was to actively retreat from it. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Safranski — the author of biographies of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche , and a philosopher himself — focuses on Goethe’s evolution as a thinker and artist at the expense of narrative excitement and anecdote. A new look at Goethe, a one-time cultural celebrity 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Schopenhauer described walking as “a continuously checked falling.” Watching Writers Pace the Streets, and Seeing Symptoms of Social Ills 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z The country of Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer did not disappoint. Ready Thyself for an All-Night Philosophy Jam 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Beginning by invoking the figure of Miss Havisham – a sort of muse of heartbreak – Raine ensures that his characters are well-drilled in the canon, citing Ezra Pound or Schopenhauer as the occasion requires. Heartbreak by Craig Raine 2010-07-04T11:43:00Z He was part of a course called "greats", which included a few philosophers such as Schopenhauer and Kierkegaard not taught by philosophy departments, along with a far larger number of "creative" writers. Which writer taught me most about love? 2012-02-10T22:55:10Z And he came to believe, again thanks to Schopenhauer, that music was the best way to express such complex emotions. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z And if there’s a central question in Nietzsche it’s the one he takes over from Schopenhauer – namely, how is it possible to justify life in the face of inevitable suffering? Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z But, more to the point being made by the opera, he brags about his reading of Schopenhauer. Stream an Operatic Rarity by a Black Composer (While You Can) 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Yvonne was Jewish, though I did not know that at the time, and I remember talking to Martin when I heard of her suicide – a self-slaughter I only managed to resolve by interrogating Schopenhauer. Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z As it happened, I was recently sent a selection from Arthur Schopenhauer’s later writings, “On the Suffering of the World,” edited by Eugene Thacker, a professor at the New School in Manhattan. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Still, even if Schopenhauer is essentially right about the human condition, shouldn’t we try to live as if he weren’t? Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer was a forefather of a school of thought that philosophers loosely call “pessimism.” Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z At Cambridge, Smith compelled a distinguished professor of philosophy, an avowed disciple of Schopenhauer, to cling to a gargoyle outside the man’s college window and then, in front of witnesses, took potshots at him. Review | The perfect book for this year’s coincidence, Easter on April Fools’ Day 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It’s a survey of the thoughts and dark quips of the Danish philosopher and his ilk, like Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and others, combined with Thacker’s own aphoristic thoughts on the subject. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z You Can Choose Your Friends, and Maybe Your Family, Too Don’t you just hate it when the robot that replaced your mother hasn’t read Schopenhauer? Theater Review: ‘The Truth Quotient’ at the Beckett Theater 2013-01-27T21:17:54Z Several great theorists also write beautifully, notably Plato, Rousseau, Hume and Schopenhauer; their books are literature. Review | A new book for ‘those who don’t want millions, but an answer to their questions’ 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer believed that people were driven by unachievable desires; the chasm between what they want and what they can get is immiserating. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Schopenhauer was influenced by ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts, which identified suffering as the base condition of life. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z It’s where Zeno first heard of Socrates, and where Nietzsche learned of Schopenhauer. Perspective | There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Gertrude Stein had her standard poodles, and Schopenhauer had his. Books by David Nicholls and Edward St. Aubyn 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z In the early 19th century, the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer paid special attention to the capacity for suffering in human life. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Kant and Schopenhauer were particularly important to him. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z But O'Shaughnessy had first turned to the discipline through a love of Arthur Schopenhauer. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z In his central work, “The World as Will and Representation,” Schopenhauer described human suffering as the byproduct of the fundamental indifference of nature. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Thus Arthur Schopenhauer defined the concept of genius – as a gift displayed by semi-mystic beings whose innate qualities sets them apart from other mortals. David Shenk's bright idea: Genius isn't in the genes 2010-05-01T23:08:00Z Still, asks Schopenhauer, why should we be afraid of nonexistence since no one is troubled about having been nothing before his or her birth? Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z One such example is art, to which Schopenhauer assigned a certain potential for release from will. Emptiness doesn't have to mean nothingness: it could mean happiness 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z And yet each of us is on some level acquainted with the darkness Schopenhauer was putting his finger on. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z Sacks goes on to quote Schopenhauer approvingly: "Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves." Will Self: The musical world of Franz Kafka 2012-10-05T21:55:12Z He discovered the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, in 1854. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Schorske writes, “Klimt’s version of the universe is Schopenhauer’s—the World as Will, as blind energy in an endless round of meaningless parturience, love and death.” The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Arthur Schopenhauer couldn’t have said it much better himself. Review: In ‘Switched On,’ John Elder Robison’s Asperger’s Brain Is Changed 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z I came across this quotation from Arthur Schopenhauer, who said the first 40 years of your life are text, and the last 30 are commentary. Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The sardonic one-eyed profile, slightly cross, the narrow, ectomorphic head, badly combed, the wide and nervous and well-muscled rump all suggest deskwork: shipping rates by day, Schopenhauer by night, and endless coffee. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Landis certainly is clever — the garrulous Matt, who looks and sounds as if he’s in college, name drops Schopenhauer, Jung and Plato — but these citations are largely self-aware icing on a genre cake. Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank 2012-02-03T00:02:16Z And in between big block quotes of Seneca, Socrates, Schopenhauer and many more, that’s exactly what he does, in unsettling bursts. From a Suicide Expert, an Unflinching Guide to Saving Lives 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Schopenhauer appears to be alone among the major authors in offering games more than passing consideration. A designer's take: Moma is wrong to pretend video games are art 2013-03-07T13:30:00Z Life, according to Schopenhauer, consists of ceaseless motion and restlessness, caused by what he calls the Will-to-Live, a fundamental drive that originates in the body and is mainly directed toward food or sex. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z A favorite passage from “King Lear” appears in “Birthday Candles,” and the name of an onstage goldfish — Atman — comes from the name of a poodle adored by the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Playwright Noah Haidle blows out his ‘Birthday Candles’ 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z The book draws from the omnivorous taste of its creator: Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Schopenhauer, leavened by the picaresque tradition of Cervantes and Laurence Sterne. A Playful Masterpiece That Expanded the Novel’s Possibilities 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Schopenhauer used the tonal range of music as a metaphor for the entirety of existence. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Early on Matt explains to Andrew, CliffsNotes style, Schopenhauer’s concept of will, vaguely paving the way for the actions and themes to come. Movie Review: Dane DeHaan in ?Chronicle,? Directed by Josh Trank 2012-02-03T00:02:16Z Despite all his gloomy reasoning, Schopenhauer himself led a highly civilized and orderly bachelor existence, enjoying concerts, art galleries, the Times of London and casual love affairs. Review | ‘On the Suffering of the World’ sounds depressing, but perhaps it is a call to action, too 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z Happier even than when I was reading Schopenhauer as my father died. A Man in Love by Karl Ove Knausgård – digested read 2013-04-21T17:30:01Z As the neighborhood philosopher from next door, Jonathan Hadary emits sour bulletins from Schopenhauer with precise, funny inflections. Theater Review: ‘Golden Boy,’ Directed by Bartlett Sher 2012-12-07T03:00:19Z As Schopenhauer said, even porcupines cluster together when it’s chilly. We Are What We Read 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Nietzsche wondered how much of a pessimist Schopenhauer could really be given that he played the flute. Finding Alarm and Consolation About the Apocalypse in Two New Books 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z At lunch in a Berlin restaurant, she reminds a retired maestro that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once threw a woman down a flight of stairs. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Her much older male colleague wonders what that has to do with Schopenhauer’s thought. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z It's fair to ask whether the opinions of crabby old philosophers like Schopenhauer are relevant to a discussion of video games as art. A designer's take: Moma is wrong to pretend video games are art 2013-03-07T13:30:00Z For Schopenhauer, living on these terms, perpetually under the cloud of suffering, meant a kind of endless nightmare, escapable only in death. Should We Be More Pessimistic? 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z On what philosopher she thinks of when she thinks of pasta: Maybe Schopenhauer … yes, probably him. Celebrating spring with Pike Place Market pasta-maker Michela Tartaglia 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z He laughs, jokes and yelps, as he does in performance, but can also be sober and introspective, liable to quote Schopenhauer or Borges in conversation. The Man Who Made Spain the Magic Capital of the World 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Text-heavy yet breezy, the site includes quotes from the philosopher Schopenhauer and cartoons by the artist Nina Paley, as well as arguments against procreation and for adoption. Earth Now Has 8 Billion Humans. This Man Wishes There Were None. 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z These ideas were echoed in the philosophies of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche who, under the influence of various Eastern philosophies, speculated that there was no matter, per se, only energy and motion. Perspective | Monet’s towering obsession Castro and I laughed over the episode of Schopenhauer’s dog in “Concrete,” a passage so funny we had to interrupt our partners’ bedtime routines to read it to them. Why are these summer books indebted to an Austrian author of nihilistic rants? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Reason, as Schopenhauer puts it, echoing Hume, is the hard-pressed servant of the will. The politics of cultural despair: That's what's killing us, not Donald Trump 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z Bursting with amusing trivia, insights and cultural references, he is on a quest to make even Schopenhauer relatable. Review | It’s been a rough year. Maybe these philosophers can help. 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Although Schopenhauer’s views are often woefully misunderstood and misrepresented—most conspicuously by presumed experts—when correctly construed they offer a coherent scheme for reconciling free will with seemingly deterministic natural laws. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Were it not for the irrational fear of being buried alive, George Washington wouldn’t have requested his corpse be kept on his deathbed for three days, or Schopenhauer on his for five. What I Learned in Avalanche School 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z “Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame” — that’s philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writing in 1851, roughly a century and a half before Twitter launched. Opinion | In the age of a reality-TV president, Americans are saying no to fame 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z At first glance, this entity strongly resembles Schopenhauer’s all-devouring will. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z For instance, already in the early 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer argued that the physical world of discrete objects in spacetime is merely a subjective representation in the mind of an observer. The Universe as Cosmic Dashboard 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z As elucidated in my concise new book, Decoding Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, for Schopenhauer the inner essence of everything is conscious volition—that is, will. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z In the words of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, contempt is “the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.” Opinion | Our Culture of Contempt 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z After all, “the genius,” German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote, “lights on his age like a comet into the paths of the planets.” Dustin Johnson is a golf savant. Yes, really - Golf Digest 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Only through the renunciation of worldly desire, Schopenhauer posited, can we free ourselves from our incessant drives. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Is reading the essays of Schopenhauer on your phone really as bad as bullying people on Instagram? 'Screen time’: how the phrase went from neutral to shameful 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Like his predecessor Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer thought of what we call the “physical world” as merely an image, a perceptual representation of the world in the mind of an observer. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” reflected the author’s reading of the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, along with works about Napoleon and French history. A look at the books which have inspired literary classics 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Gray admires the mystical atheist Arthur Schopenhauer, who didn’t believe in God and didn’t particularly believe in reality, either. Why Are Americans Still Uncomfortable with Atheism? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z When they first met, they shared an admiration for the philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer, who saw a world governed by the insatiable striving of the will. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Is reading the essays of Arthur Schopenhauer on your phone really as bad as bullying people on Instagram? 'Screen time’: how the phrase went from neutral to shameful 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z And since both our body and the rest of the world appear in representation as matter, Schopenhauer inferred that the rest of the world, just like ourselves, is also essentially will. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z McGuinness explores analogies between Wittgenstein’s experiences and ones described by James, the philosopher Schopenhauer, the Catholic monk Meister Eckhart and the Muslim sage al-Qushayri. Was Wittgenstein a Mystic? 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z He was also immensely well read and began studying the works of 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer by age 12. Cecil Taylor, pianist who was ‘the eternal outer curve of the avant-garde,’ dies at 89 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z But he disdained Schopenhauer’s emphasis on the practice of compassion, which also promises release from the grasping ego. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z There are entertaining pen-portraits of thinkers such as Schopenhauer and Montaigne. The consolations of philosophy for the middle-aged 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In Schopenhauer’s illuminating view of reality, the will is indeed free because it is all there ultimately is. Yes, Free Will Exists 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z As the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once upliftingly put it, “life swings back and forth like a pendulum between pain and boredom.” Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z A brilliant student, she held abiding passions for Judaism and German culture, including Goethe, Nietzsche, Schiller and Schopenhauer. Ruth Gruber, a Fearless Chronicler of the Jewish Struggle, Dies at 105 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Rather than fleeing abjectly from the will, as in Schopenhauer, one should seek to harness it, master it, ride it out. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The question then becomes: what is the story, when Wagner drew not only on Teutonic and Norse legends but also on Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Calderón de la Barca, and Schopenhauer? A Weekend of Wagner 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Following Schopenhauer, Wagner sees the exterior world as of no consequence. Why Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is the ultimate opera 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Schopenhauer’s vision of life is sensationally pessimistic — indeed, entertainingly so. Opinion | The Anxiety of John Stuart Mill 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z In that episode, Campbell and I discussed the influence on him of the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who believed that the will to live is the fundamental reality of human nature. How America became a 1% society 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z What do Schopenhauer's insights boil down to, after all, but the tried and tested message of the needlework sampler: it's not about the destination, it's the journey. Should we embrace the mid-life crisis rather than be embarrassed by it? - BBC News 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z I wonder if Chuck Close has ever read the German philosopher Schopenhauer? The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Chuck Close 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Hoffmann, and Schopenhauer, among others—sparked a drastic revaluation of music’s significance. When Music Is Violence 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z Decades earlier, Schopenhauer had cautioned that “the Alps and their dwarflike inhabitants were a natural shield against the hordes of Germanic lummoxes, beer bellies, and professors.” The Long Dig 2008-09-15T04:00:00Z Greer’s chapter on abuse is prescient and literary, devolving into a brilliant passage of linguistic analysis leavened with quotations from King Lear, Frank Zappa and Schopenhauer. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z "Schopenhauer's basic argument is that the problem with getting what you want is that your pursuit is over and then you have nothing to do," says Setiya. Should we embrace the mid-life crisis rather than be embarrassed by it? - BBC News 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Windows on the Will: Smith’s essay about watching the new Charlie Kaufman film Anomalisa, and Arthur Schopenhauer, was recently published on the New York Review of Books. 10 inspiring female writers you need to read 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z She was also a coloratura soprano, was well read in philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer and David Hume, and was determined to harness her brains and beauty to advance her opportunities. Yolande Betbeze Fox, a Miss America who rebelled, dies at 87 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z These are the questions that Schopenhauer attempts to address in On Reading and Books. What You Didn't Know About the Act of Reading Books 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Arthur Schopenhauer complained that Euclid’s proofs were overcomplicated: “a brilliant piece of perversity”. Ten books that changed the world 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in the early 19th century that people are like porcupines. The Days of Escaping Your iPhone Are Over 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; third, it is accepted as self-evident,” said 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. Four Words That Every Entrepreneur Succeeds Or Fails By 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The “great thinkers” of the past were, for the most part, were those wealthy enough to think and be heard — Montesquieu, Smith, de Tocqueville, Keynes, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Freud, Darwin, Huxley. The real secret to making it as a writer: Be fabulously wealthy before you even start 2014-03-30T13:00:00Z On the two types of literature, Schopenhauer comments: What You Didn't Know About the Act of Reading Books 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Since then almost every major philosopher has had something to contribute to the free will debate, from Kant and Schopenhauer to Nietzsche and Sartre. What can a brain scan tell us about free will? 2013-08-13T07:12:56Z And among the writers you need to refer to are Plato, William of Ockham, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Sartre. Why must French pupils master philosophy? 2013-06-03T00:24:06Z In hearing how wide the perspectives vary on crowdfunding, I’m reminded of a great pearl of wisdom about human behavior and history, from the German Philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer: All truths pass through three stages. How Smart Angels Will Leverage Crowdfunding 2013-05-23T16:25:18Z He goes on to quote Schopenhauer who condemns games of all kinds and calls playing cards, "in the truest sense an expression of the wretched side of humanity". The absolute and inarguable beauty of video games 2013-03-08T12:59:00Z In an argument that pulls to mind two filters for what to read, Schopenhauer writes: What You Didn't Know About the Act of Reading Books 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z Wade knew what he was suggesting wasn't popular, which perhaps explains the passing reference to Schopenhauer in the introduction to the FA Guide. The Question: Does 4-4-2 work for England? 2012-06-05T12:35:23Z The sallies of a Schopenhauer and a Nietzsche lack the purgatorial note which religious sadness gives forth. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z A knowledge of causality in this form certainly reaches far below the level of Schopenhauer's pet dog, to whom it was ascribed. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Not the system of Hegel or Schopenhauer or of any other professor of metaphysics is the true philosophy of the age; these are but echoes of a past civilisation, voices and præterea nil. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z An amusing anecdote is told by Schopenhauer in support of his theory of the ridiculous. Ever Heard This? Over Three Hundred Good Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:33.730Z Schopenhauer's argument for transcendental freedom contains many self-contradictions, and is founded on the fiction of a first free choice of character. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z For Schopenhauer, long-bodied and ungainly, had come with them to Europe, and was now friends with all the gay dogs of Prague. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z We graze Schopenhauer, overhear Leopardi, but the Preacher has the mightiest voice. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Schopenhauer and Hartmann both enjoyed life, while Voltaire was an invalid most of his days; but they never threw into their pessimism the gaiety of Candide. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The obvious conclusion from the frequent examination of the Epicurean account-book is that which Schopenhauer so triumphantly demonstrates,—pessimism. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Yet it is not idle, as Schopenhauer asserts, since it has an effect upon future action. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Anne-Marie, who did not know that critics existed, nor care what critics said, was happy and cheerful, and bought a dog in Regent Street, to replace the quarantined Schopenhauer. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z And, like Schopenhauer, he masked this undue sensibility with a repelling misanthropy. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Of the other idealism there are no doubt abundant traces in the language of Kant: and they were greedily fastened on by Schopenhauer. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The result is that which Schopenhauer has so conclusively pointed out. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Schopenhauer was my earliest friend, Voltaire my teacher, and Shelley my god! Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Between his studies of Darwin and Lombroso, the enthusiastic youth had found time to imbibe a little Schopenhauer—“towards the sky, towards the light!” Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z He owes much to their thought as they owed much to French thought; Goethe has said as much; and of Voltaire and Chamfort, Schopenhauer was a disciple. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Schopenhauer has put the point with his usual picturesqueness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It appears in the writings of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Mill, Möbius, and others. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Schopenhauer said once that the learning of the West crumples up against the wisdom of the East like a leaden bullet against a stone wall. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z We had no less harmonious theories from Descartes, Leibnitz, Fichte, and Schopenhauer. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z Schopenhauer and his mystic Will-to-Live are both rather amusing survivals of antique animism. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z That aspect of negation accordingly which Kant certainly began with, and which Schopenhauer magnified until it became the all-in-all of Ethics, Hegel entirely subordinates. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z "You, for instance—fancy your sacrificing yourself—for the next generation—that reminds you of Schopenhauer, doesn't it?—for the next generation, or love, or anything!" The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It might be fruitful to compare the view of the world taken by the Christian Clement with that taken by the pessimist Schopenhauer. Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom 2012-01-11T03:00:30.173Z “If such be real human life, then it is better not to live at all,” says the fashionable philosophy of Schopenhauer and Hartman. What Shall We Do? 2012-01-29T03:00:11.167Z After Feuerbach came Arthur Schopenhauer in the intellectual life of Wagner. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z They prefer Schopenhauer to Kant, Plato to Aristotle, and so it will be easy to comprehend the unquestionable influence which the modern evolutionist school exerts over the mind of young Japan. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Day after day I told him what the professors had told me; of life, of sex and its origins; of Schopenhauer and William James. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Hence all great thinkers have readily admitted the existence of miracles: a Locke and a Leibnitz as well as, more recently, a Stahl and a Schopenhauer. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Where a choice has had to be made, the alternative of a somewhat slavish adherence to Schopenhauer's ipsissima verba has accordingly been preferred to that of inaccuracy. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Nietzsche was right; Schopenhauer proved a powerful poison for Wagner. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z What spoils it for Schopenhauer is the Judaic element. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Next after Hegel, among the great names of this period, stand the names of Herbart and Schopenhauer. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z One of the most remarkable cases is mentioned by Schopenhauer. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The essay on history was completed in January, that on Schopenhauer in August, 1874. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Nietzsche, like his great master, Schopenhauer, was never a worshipper of the irresponsible sex. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Nevertheless, the story of the Fall of Man, of which that theology, in its fundamentally true part, is a reasoned expression, is the one thing, Schopenhauer avows, that reconciles him to the Old Testament. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z At this point Kant and Schopenhauer have had a profounder insight than Hume and Stuart Mill. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Are these moral deeds miracles because they are, in Schopenhauer's phrase "impossible and yet accomplished"? Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z The essay on Schopenhauer is of value precisely because it has nothing to do with Schopenhauer. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The pessimism of Mr. Hardy resembles that of Schopenhauer in being absolutely thorough and absolutely candid; it makes the world as darkly superb and as terribly interesting as a Greek drama. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z In this terminus of his philosophy, Schopenhauer recognised his kinship with Indian thought, of which he was a lifelong student. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Later on I also tried to read modern philosophers; I read Schopenhauer and others, but I much preferred the ancients. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Much as may be gained from Schopenhauer's religio-ethical human and cosmical oracle as regards the comprehension of Christianity and other religions, it is nevertheless certain that he erred regarding the value of religion to knowledge. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z He could regard Schopenhauer, later, as a siren that called to death; he put him among the great artists that lead down—who are worse than the bad artists that lead nowhere. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z It contrasts favourably with Ibsen's harsh bitterness, with Gorky's maudlin dreariness, and with the hysterical outbursts of pessimism from the manikins who try to see life from the mighty shoulders of Schopenhauer. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Schopenhauer, while he rejected the materialism of their ancient and modern successors alike, took the step of formally derationalising the elements of mind. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer's unconscious will is a word without meaning. Morals and the Evolution of Man 2011-11-14T03:00:18.930Z This can be thought out and it is worth while doing so, even if the question whether anything metaphysical has ever been demonstrated by or through Kant and Schopenhauer, be put altogether aside. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z “We must go further in the pessimistic logic than the denial of the will,” he says in the G�tzend�mmerung; “we must deny Schopenhauer.” Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z We should be as grateful for it in this field as we are to Schopenhauer in the domain of metaphysics. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Schopenhauer admits that the knowledge which for the ascetic is the 'quietive' of the will has to be won anew in a perpetual conflict. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He has been excessively praised by Schopenhauer, whose appreciation of the author induced him to translate the Or�culo manual, and he has been unduly depreciated by Ticknor and others. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z A curious example of the corruption and obscuration of an author's text is furnished by the ideas of Schopenhauer on the pregnancy of women. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z In this essay we hear little of the pessimism, save as the imperfect and “all-too-human” side of Schopenhauer, that actually brings us nearer to him. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z He also wrote much about Schopenhauer's philosophy, whose works he edited in six volumes. Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ 2011-10-14T02:00:24.730Z An objection not merely verbal might indeed be taken to Schopenhauer's metaphysics of ethics strictly on his own ground. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer and Joseph Jacobs have respectively translated the Or�culo manual into German and English. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z Granted, however, that Schopenhauer was right on the general principle that women show more self-satisfaction when pregnant than at any other time, a better explanation than this lies to hand. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z They may not perhaps continue a process, but they live out of time, as contemporaries: and thanks to history that permits such a company, they live as the Republic of geniuses of which Schopenhauer speaks. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Schopenhauer, the German philosopher, referring to the figure, speaks of it as "a proof walking on stilts," and as "a mouse-trap proof." The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Arthur Schopenhauer may be distinctively described as the greatest philosophic writer of his century. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The influence of Schopenhauer was on the wane, and at the universities Hegelianism had lost its former hold. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z There were four pairs who responded to me in my sacrifice: Epicurus and Montaigne, Goethe and Spinoza, Plato and Rousseau, Pascal and Schopenhauer. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Schopenhauer's speeches are to himself alone; or if you like to imagine an auditor, let it be a son whom the father is instructing. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The microbe of ink having entered into his blood, he conceived the idea of putting Schopenhauer and Spinoza before the public in condensed and epigrammatic form. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z But, as the 'world-fleeing' religions have their mitigations and accommodations, so also has the philosophy of Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Nietzsche had begun as a disciple of Schopenhauer and a friend of Wagner, and he ultimately became the champion of an individualistic and optimistic philosophy which formed the sharpest possible contrast to mid-century pessimism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z In the reverse instance, to conclude from Schopenhauer's proposition, the cleverest and most intelligent women would tend more than any to exult openly in their condition. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z We are just as little reminded in Schopenhauer of the professor with his stiff joints worse for want of exercise, his narrow chest and scraggy figure, his slinking or strutting gait. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z During his life in Germany, Schopenhauer had been his daily food. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z But for Schopenhauer the desire for speculative truth does not by itself suffice to explain the impulse of philosophical inquiries. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Most players in the league have tattoos, but to my knowledge none have Schopenhauer and Dostoyevsky quotes on their backs and arms. Straight Sets: Could the N.B.A. Invade the U.S. Open? 2011-08-28T13:06:34Z Thus, Schopenhauer's philosophy remains a mirror of his hot and melancholy youth—it is no mode of thought for older men. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z I only know a single author that I can rank with Schopenhauer, or even above him, in the matter of honesty; and that is Montaigne. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Shall we, with Schopenhauer, pronounce Hegel to be a thorough impostor? and, if so, can we seriously accept Schopenhauer's own system? Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z This freedom, as he has put gratefully on record, he owed to his father, Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer, who was a rich merchant of Danzig, where the philosopher was born on the 22nd of February 1788. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z To be sure, he had read Strauss and Renan after his Darwin and Spencer, he had even dipped into the bitter fountains of Schopenhauer. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z His previous works comprise only the philological treatises, The Birth of Tragedy, and the essays on Strauss, Schopenhauer, and Wagner in Thoughts out of Season. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Schopenhauer has a second characteristic in common with Montaigne, besides honesty; a joy that really makes others joyful. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The internet amplifies Schopenhauer's trumpet many times over. Online commenting: the age of rage 2011-07-23T23:04:08Z After completing his chief work, Schopenhauer wrote some verses in which he predicted that posterity would erect a monument to him. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z No matter what the philosophy be, whether it be professedly a pessimism as Schopenhauer's or not, there is no difference. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z In the hands of its creator, Schopenhauer's “will,” through the philosophic craze for generalisation, already turned out to be a bane to knowledge. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Schopenhauer makes small account of the learned tribe, keeps himself exclusive, and cultivates an independence from state and society as his ideal, to escape the chains of circumstance here: that is his value to us. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z His poetic experience, his intuitions, his single thoughts, even his large views, correspond in a striking way, sometimes in a startling way, with ideas methodically developed 130 by Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z No 'conspiracy' need be invoked to explain the failure of Schopenhauer to win early recognition. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Compared with any religious theory, even Schopenhauer's philosophy is a glaring optimism. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z I already did not believe in “a blessed thing,” as the people say, not even in Schopenhauer. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z This much at least was accomplished by it;—the greater part of the first edition of Schopenhauer's masterpiece had to be turned into waste paper. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Oysters he never could endure, but, like Schopenhauer and Goethe and many another great man, he is a consistently hearty and unfastidious eater. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z The rest of Schopenhauer's life in its external relations may be briefly summed up. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer.—Of the other German philosophers immediately following Kant, there is only one who calls for notice here, namely, Arthur Schopenhauer. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z It is true that many back doors, which the “philosophic brains,” like Schopenhauer's own, have left for themselves, must be recognised as useless. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Schopenhauer knew that one must guess the painter in order to understand the picture. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z I loved these friends of which Schopenhauer spoke so evilly when he said that if Asia has her monkeys Europe has her French. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z The whole series of Schopenhauer's works, indeed, was completed before he attained anything that could be called fame. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z In truth, Schopenhauer’s conception of the world as the activity of a blind force is at bottom a materialistic and mechanical rather than a spiritualistic and teleological theory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Beethoven composed and Schopenhauer philosophised above the heads of the Germans, and it was above their heads, in the same way, that Goethe wrote his Tasso, his Iphigenie. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The wonder is, that Schopenhauer's nature should have been so inconceivably stable and unshakable that it could neither be destroyed nor petrified by this yearning. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The German Schopenhauer was not very friendly to us. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Although Schopenhauer discountenanced the attempt to connect a philosophers biography with his work, something has to be said about his character, since this has been dwelt on to his disadvantage by opponents. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Moreover, Schopenhauer’s subjective idealism, and his view of time as something illusory, hindered him from viewing this process as a sequence of events in time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z If said “talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see” Schopenhauer situations are dominated by entrepreneurs and scientific and technology visionaries. The Newest Greatest Trade Ever, The Most Contrarian View Today 2011-06-22T12:57:12Z Schopenhauer stands as a pattern to men, in spite of all those scars and scratches. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z This may be, but students cannot reasonably be expected to sift out a few oats from a bushel of husks, even if the supply be from the bin of a Hegel or a Schopenhauer. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z The title of Schopenhauer's chief work is rendered in the English translation, The World as Will and Idea. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z It was as though what Schopenhauer called “the genius of the genus” had arisen from the depths of being to protest mutely against this piteous desecration of its temple by unregarding Nature and iron-visaged Fate. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z By necessity, these Schopenhauer entrepreneurs envision a future that doesn’t yet exist outside their minds. The Newest Greatest Trade Ever, The Most Contrarian View Today 2011-06-22T12:57:12Z And let him surround himself with the pictures of good and brave fighters such as Schopenhauer. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z The first objection as to music arose with Schopenhauer, though he does not appear to have been quite certain of his position. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z By Schopenhauer himself the word 'Idea' was used exclusively in the sense of the Platonic Idea, which, as we shall see, plays an important part in his philosophy. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer was right,—among human beings as among other animals the male is essentially more beautiful than the female; it is the sex-disturbance which confuses our canons. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z The central thought of Schopenhauer is the absurdity of life, and the central thought of Herbert Spencer is the evolution of the material universe. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z From boyhood Schopenhauer strove with his time, a false and unworthy mother to him, and as soon as he had banished her, he could bring back his being to its native health and purity. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Schopenhauer was not the only person in the world to discover that a beautiful thought is like a beautiful woman. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z The first proposition of Schopenhauer's philosophical system is, 'The world is my presentation.' Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Among the older metaphysicians his principal guide was Spinoza, and in more modern speculative science he did not advance beyond Schopenhauer. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z As Schopenhauer has excellently observed, man is one-third intellect and two-thirds will, and much of this last two-thirds is the result of training. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z There are three Images of Man fashioned by our modern time, which for a long while yet will urge mortal men to transfigure their own lives; they are the men of Rousseau, Goethe, and Schopenhauer. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Just in time— Such things are always opportune, a man Comes by and sees her spirit, says to her You may read Plato, and she reads and passes To Kant and Schopenhauer. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z Schopenhauer is therefore an idealist in the sense in which we call Berkeley's theory of the external world idealism; though the expressions used are to some extent different. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He started out as an enthusiastic disciple of Arthur Schopenhauer; unquestionably the adherence was fixed by his own deep-seated contempt for the complacency of the plebs. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z “Music,” in Schopenhauer’s own words, “reveals the innermost essential being of the world, and expresses the highest wisdom in a language the reason does not understand.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z The picture of Schopenhauer's man can help us here. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z No one since Schopenhauer has understood how to use the German language as you do. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z This alone, therefore, Schopenhauer adopts; placing it, however, not at a higher level but side by side with time and space, Kant's forms of intuition. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z We have seen that the illusionism of Schopenhauer and more particularly of Wagner exerted a strong attraction on his high-strung artistic temperament. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z It is not to the credit of historians that Schopenhauer’s debt should have been allowed to pass with so little notice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Think how utterly great Schopenhauer is, and what a small and absurd effect he has had! Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z It is not, therefore, to Schopenhauer’s theory of the World conceived as Will and Idea, that I invite your attention. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z To Reason as distinguished from Understanding, Schopenhauer assigns no such exalted function as was attributed to it in portions of his system by Kant, and still more by some of his successors. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The key to the Wagnerian theory is found, also, in Schopenhauer's philosophy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z We might select many passages from philosophical works that belong to the literature of ecstasy, passages from Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume, but more especially from Plato, Pascal, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z But Schopenhauer had the rare happiness of seeing the genius not only in himself, but also outside himself—in Goethe; and this double reflection taught him everything about the aims and culture of the learned. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Influenced by these studies and by the philosophy of Schopenhauer, he introduced a new spirit into Rumanian poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z For the historical estimation of Schopenhauer, it is necessary to place him in relation to Kant, as he himself always insisted. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The anti-feminism of Strindberg's predecessors, not excepting that arch-misogynist, Arthur Schopenhauer himself, sprang from contempt, not from abhorrence and abject fear. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z And philosophers like Plato, Pascal, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche have demonstrated this. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z So I will to-day take as my theme the hard teacher Arthur Schopenhauer, and speak of others later. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z I was reading Schopenhauer on the subject last night. The Diary of a U-boat Commander With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne 2011-01-30T03:00:19.213Z The sharp distinction between logical and mathematical truth, with the assignment of the former to conceptual and of the latter to intuitive relations, comes to Schopenhauer directly from Kant. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z But before Nietzsche finally rejected Schopenhauer and gave his shocking counterblast to the undermining action of pessimism, he succumbed temporarily to the spell of another gigantic personality. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z One cannot accept Schopenhauer's views that the aim of art is to annihilate the will to live. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z With such needs and desires within me did I come to know Schopenhauer. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z I will read you some of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, some of Nietzsche’s boiling utterance, some of Schopenhauer.” Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z On the same side there is a close agreement with Malebranche and the Occasionalists, pointed out by Schopenhauer himself. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z "Do you like Schopenhauer?" asked the royal maiden, with a smile like a peach blossom opening its petals to the breeze. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Thus Nietzsche believed poetry should spread the gospel of the will to power, while Schopenhauer thought it reached its highest point when it glorified the denial of the will to live. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z I have been describing nothing but the first, almost physiological, impression made upon me by Schopenhauer, the magical emanation of inner force from one plant of Nature to another, that follows the slightest contact. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z And, mind you, this isn’t a side issue Schopenhauer is upon; it isn’t a moment of relaxation; this argument is essential to the whole argument of his philosophy….” Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z These discriminations made, Schopenhauer offers us a scientific cosmogony beginning with the nebular hypothesis and ending with an outline of organic evolution. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He skimmed the assigned reading but writes like an expert on Schopenhauer. No. 7: Jonah Goldberg 2010-11-24T13:01:00Z It is only of recent years that the writings of Schopenhauer and the researches of many distinguished orientalists have awakened some interest in Asiatic philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" Analysing it, I find that this influence of Schopenhauer has three elements, his honesty, his joy, and his consistency. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z There was a time when the general intelligence would have resisted and rejected Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Chamberlain, Shaw; now it resists such invasions less and less. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z From Schopenhauer's metaphysics, as we shall see, it follows that no higher form of life will ever appear. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Was it Schopenhauer who declared that man walks only by saving himself at every step from a fall? The Will to Doubt An essay in philosophy for the general thinker Most of the great philosophers following Descartes, such as Locke, Leibniz, Kant, and Schopenhauer, however greatly they may have differed in other points, in this one returned to the Aristotelian point of view. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology So the first danger in whose shadow Schopenhauer lived was—isolation. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z It is a section called ‘The Turning Point,’ and it’s quite on all fours with Schopenhauer’s ‘our ancestors the Hindus.’ Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z A word may be said here on a materialistic-sounding phrase which is very prominent in Schopenhauer's later expositions, and has been remarked on as paradoxical for an idealist. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z I won't praise her, but Schopenhauer is right again in regard to her explosive effect. The Children of the World Their outlook was one of unrelieved gloom; and it one day came upon her as a revelation that Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, following in a degree on Rousseau, had forgotten women in the scheme of life. A Bed of Roses These three constitutional dangers that threatened Schopenhauer, threaten us all. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z One gets Schopenhauer rammed down one’s throat as a philosopher, as a deep thinker, as the only alternative to the Hegelian dose. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z The answer is that Schopenhauer meant in reality 'the being of the brain,' and not the brain as phenomenon. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Last night--I have not yet told you of it, Balder--I found her absorbed in Schopenhauer's Parerga. The Children of the World Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterises modern thought, but Hamlet invented it. The Trembling of the Veil The possibility of this we owe to Schopenhauer. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z It isn’t a new beginning for Schopenhauer to say we are descended from Hindus; it is just stupidity and mental retrogression. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z A characteristic position in Schopenhauer's theory of knowledge, and one that is constantly finding new expression in his writings, is the distinction between abstract and intuitive knowledge already touched on. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Throw Schopenhauer aside, Fr�ulein, and play something for me,--the Moonlight Sonata, or any sweet, pensive harmony. The Children of the World Some of his sayings remind us not a little of Schopenhauer in their pungency and sharpness. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But there is a kind of denial and destruction that is the effect of that strong aspiration after holiness and deliverance, which Schopenhauer was the first philosopher to teach our profane and worldly generation. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Schopenhauer is hardly to be considered a modern. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Here, in Schopenhauer's view, is the metaphysical problem that he left a place for but did not solve. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Have you never heard of the great philosopher, Schopenhauer? The Children of the World It apparently made a profound impression upon Hearn; every word he declared to be dynamic, as lucid and philosophical as Schopenhauer. Lafcadio Hearn I can now give an answer to the question whether it be possible to approach the great ideal of Schopenhauer's man “by any ordinary activity of our own.” Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Schopenhauer was a pioneer in the game of impudent assertion, very properly disregarded by his own generation; Shaw’s dementia samples this age. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z While the reality everywhere present is not will as specifically known in man, the mode of indicating its essence by reference to this, Schopenhauer contends, is a gain in insight. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Then he tells of one prisoner he has just left in his cell on one of the upper tiers, whom he found reading Schopenhauer. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York The names of Strauss, Comte, Schopenhauer, Renan, a dozen others, sprang from my lips. Bye-Ways A poor obstacle, isn't it? and the same that Schopenhauer pointed out in his famous essay on University philosophy. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z For Schopenhauer the cause of dreams is the stimulation of the brain by the internal regions of the organism through the sympathetic nervous system. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Here we have arrived at the thought which, in its various expressions, constitutes Schopenhauer's metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Even Schopenhauer, could he have known them, would have admitted that there were some of us who were not hopelessly wretched. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses The Chevalier Bunsen had been his tutor, and Schopenhauer, then a student at the same university, had been his friend. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 Schopenhauer proved this and will continue to prove it, more and more. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z In actuating them to that end the Genius of the Species desired, for reasons which Schopenhauer described as inaccessible, the materialization of a particular being that could not otherwise appear. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern The answer to the question here raised is given in Schopenhauer's interpretation of the Platonic Ideas. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z To my metaphysical friends in Jamaica the 'Light of Asia' had been shining amidst German dreams, and the moonlight of the Vedas had been illuminating the pessimism of Schopenhauer. The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, agreed to despise women; Napoleon seemed to view them as engines of pleasure; for Shakespeare they may well have embodied a romantic ideal, qualified by sportive wantonness. The Intelligence of Woman In this," says Mr. Lillie, "he was supported by philosophers of the calibre of Schilling and Schopenhauer, and the great Sanscrit authority, Lassen. Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning Moreover, when the work of nature is accomplished, disenchantment does not, as Schopenhauer insisted, invariably ensue. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern Schopenhauer warns us against substituting this philosophical explanation for scientific �tiology. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Doubtless Schopenhauer was right: it is merely the furious determination of the race to persist. Ancestors A Novel From Mathews he learned of philosophies—Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer—faint inklings of what they believed. The "Genius" Body, movement, physiological processes, are all nothing more than the will, to speak with Fichte and Schopenhauer, or the idea, or the spirit itself, which appears thus to sensory beings. Naturalism And Religion To conserve these interests, nature, Schopenhauer explained, dupes the individual with an illusion of free will. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern That this view implies a teleology Schopenhauer expressly recognises. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer suits you better when you are out on the marsh in rubber boots and a shooting-jacket. Ancestors A Novel The temperaments of certain great men are analyzed in studies that have for their subjects respectively Byron, Leopardi, Schopenhauer, and Goethe. The Bacillus of Long Life a manual of the preparation and souring of milk for dietary purposes, together with and historical account of the use of fermente Schopenhauer asserts that ‘Conjugal fidelity is artificial with men, but natural to women.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it The meditation which Schopenhauer described may enter there, and usually does, whether or not the parties interested are aware of it. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern In this account of Schopenhauer's metaphysical doctrine, I have tried to make the exposition as smooth as possible; but at two points the discontinuity can scarcely be concealed. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The last generation seemed to become disciples of Schopenhauer in his passionate rebellion against the fate that deferred all the pleasure of the present to the needs of the future generation. Euthenics, the science of controllable environment a plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency I never believe so much in life as when I am reading the father of pessimism, Schopenhauer! Contemporary Russian Novelists ‘You forget,’ he interposed languidly, when the Good Stockbroker paused, ‘that no less a philosopher than Schopenhauer said that the natural tendency of man is towards polygamy, and of woman towards monogamy.’ Modern marriage and how to bear it Yet to will is to want, Schopenhauer tells us, and to want is to be in pain. The Kempton-Wace Letters One of the most noteworthy features of Schopenhauer's philosophy is, as he himself thought, the acceptance from first to last of Kant's distinction between the 'empirical' and the 'intelligible' character of the individual. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer wrote much of the "will to live", which was, in his view, as unconscious as it was fundamental, and only secondarily gave rise to the conscious life of sensations and ideas. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Not only is the face a bulletin board, but as Schopenhauer says, "One's life may be his autobiography." The Colored Girl Beautiful The latter, however, afterwards repented, and, by way of Schopenhauer, turned Christian. Atta Troll There is a way of reading Ecclesiastes and Schopenhauer with a triumphant lilt in the voice. The Kempton-Wace Letters This tends to modify considerably, but does not overthrow, Schopenhauer's original system. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z I perceived, as Schopenhauer had perceived a hundred years before me, that our first judgment upon a man or principle is probably the most correct. Aliens Like the history of most great thinkers, like the history of Kant and Schopenhauer, the biography of Nietzsche is totally barren of incident, and can be disposed of in a few lines. German Problems and Personalities It is possible that Schopenhauer wrote his w. k. essay on woman after a visit to a bathing beach. The So-called Human Race Schopenhauer is a pessimist consciously, you, unconsciously; and you have both missed the living value of your facts. The Kempton-Wace Letters The association with pantheism Schopenhauer accepts in principle, though the name is not congenial to him. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z He could quote verbatim page after page of such writers as Schopenhauer, Voltaire, Mazzini. The Recipe for Diamonds He was steeped in Montaigne, to whom he has paid a glowing tribute in “Schopenhauer as Educationalist.” German Problems and Personalities Despite the fact that he played the flute and ranked Rossini above Wagner, Arthur Schopenhauer said some notable things about music. Ivory Apes and Peacocks "Love is ruled by race welfare," says Schopenhauer. The Kempton-Wace Letters Within the limits of the idealism they all hold in common, Schopenhauer is at the opposite pole. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Wagner, it is known, was a student both of Schopenhauer and Carlyle. The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe Even in his earliest work, “Thoughts out of Season,” whilst he destroys the two popular idols of the day, the theologian and the historian, he sets up two new heroes, Schopenhauer and Wagner. German Problems and Personalities But Nietzsche, was he not an old bachelor, almost as censorious as his master, that squire of dames, Arthur Schopenhauer? Ivory Apes and Peacocks Love concerns itself with "The composition of the next generation," therefore you find it common as the commonplace, therefore Schopenhauer regards it as a force treacherous to happiness, since to live is to be miserable. The Kempton-Wace Letters The supreme principle of Fichte, it has been pointed out, has an actively volitional character and was formulated before Schopenhauer's: but then it is essentially rational. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z For instance, how could I have been so prescient to have coupled Emerson and Schopenhauer together so persistently? An Ocean Tramp According to the authors, just as with Schopenhauer, woman is a grown child, a liar par excellence, weak of judgment, fickle in love, incapable of any deed truly heroic. Woman under socialism Amos smiled deprecatingly and added sadly: “Got that last night from Schopenhauer.” In the Heart of a Fool Several men and women have been sentenced to severe penalties for exercising the right of free speech, which, in the land of Goethe, Heine, Strauss, and Schopenhauer, is still confined to professed Christians. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) For Schopenhauer, on the contrary, mind, or pure intellect, is an emancipated slave. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z I wonder if the salesman dreamed that it would be used by the grimy apprentice to transcribe extracts from such writers as Kant and Lotze, Swinburne and Taine, Emerson and Schopenhauer? An Ocean Tramp Schopenhauer, as a philosopher, judges woman as one-sidedly as most of our anthropologists and physicians, who see in her only the sexual, never the social, being. Woman under socialism Shall I try a few pages of Schopenhauer? Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I We need not follow Mr. Watkinson's nonsense about "the domestic shrine of Schopenhauer," who was a gay and festive bachelor to the day of his death. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Yet to say merely this is to give a wrong impression of Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The author of ‘Peripatetic Psychology’ deserves to have asthma all his nights, and ‘After this Life’ smacks of the usual Schopenhauer and Lager. The Camera Fiend We are alarmed neither by a Humboldt's hostility to marriage nor by the philosophic pessimism of a Schopenhauer, a Mainlaender or a v. Woman under socialism Schopenhauer claimed to have traced it to a fourfold root, and Mill with most of the current English schools, Bain, Austin, Spencer, &c., maintained that it meant nothing but “uniformity of sequence.” The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Religions, said Schopenhauer, are like glow-worms; they require darkness to shine in. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) A portion of Schopenhauer's system by which its pessimism is considerably mitigated is his theory of the Beautiful and of Fine Art. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer, and many other thinkers, lay stress on the connection between the work of productive genius and the modification of the sexual impulse. The Truth About Woman If I make a noise like a knocker at times you don't want to put me down as any Schopenhauer fan. The Harbor Schopenhauer classified all religions as optimisms or pessimisms. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion Schopenhauer, for instance, he rails at as a "small philosopher." whose ideas were only the "formulation of his own special disease, the expression of his own ineffably petty and uncomfortable disposition." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The 'subjectivity' opposed to this, in Schopenhauer's phraseology, is preoccupation with the interests of one's own will. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Mysogynists, like the philosopher Schopenhauer, disparage woman from all points of view, while the friends of the female sex often exalt her in an exaggerated manner. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study They were not to be deceived by the specious sanctity which Darwin and Schopenhauer—probably Bishops of the Established Church—borrowed from their Hebrew lettering. Dreamers of the Ghetto Schopenhauer, in calling dogmas and myths “the metaphysics of the people,” fell into the same error. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion He knew Schopenhauer before he learned to pronounce German correctly; and the works of Bakounin, Herzen, Kropotkin became part of his cerebral tissue. Melomaniacs This is the statement in its first outline of a theory that became one of Schopenhauer's most fruitful topics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The philosopher, Schopenhauer, was an example of this kind. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Schopenhauer wished it to be known that he despised the German nation on account of its infinite stupidity, and that he blushed to belong to it. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Lessing, the philosophers of the French revolution, James Mill, Schopenhauer and others fell into this error. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion I had been reading, reading, reading; my brain was one dark and misty muddle of Kant, Schopenhauer, von Hartmann, and a few others. The First Violin A Novel Of all Schopenhauer's work, its �sthetic part has met with the most general appreciation. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The late baronet was absolutely ignorant of Schopenhauer, and even cursed him to my face for a madman, just because he happened to be my favourite philosopher. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real Schopenhauer compares philosophy to an Alpine road, often bringing the wanderer to the edge of the chasm, but rewarding him as he ascends with oblivion of the discords and irregularities of the world. Mountain Meditations and some subjects of the day and the war Pessimism, from the time of the ancient Hindoo philosophers to the time of their disciple, Schopenhauer, has been in no want of evidence to support its melancholy conclusions. Social Rights and Duties, Volume I (of 2) Addresses to Ethical Societies Has Schopenhauer carried the judgment of mankind by his favorite motto, "It is safer to trust fear than faith?" A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character The summits of pictorial and poetic art Schopenhauer finds in the great Italian painters so far as they represent the ethical spirit of Christianity, and in the tragic poets, ancient and modern. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z I married him without love, and in face of his attitude towards Schopenhauer, you may guess what chance it had of springing up. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The selections from Schopenhauer and Bergson may be regarded, therefore, as the characteristic reactions of two strikingly different temperaments to the conception of progress and to life. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It is a quiet calm sentiment, a physiological necessity such as the good soul of Schopenhauer interpreted it, to the great scandal of a certain class of lovers. My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) Schopenhauer must have organized a labor party in his salad days. The Big Bow Mystery The great tragic poets, for Schopenhauer also, are �schylus, Sophocles and Shakespeare. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The fact that Schopenhauer said such a thing does not prove it true. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Schopenhauer may object as he will, it is certain that Gabirol was his predecessor by more than eight hundred years! Jewish Literature and Other Essays Schopenhauer was quite right when he said life was not worth living. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story For there are many ways of being a pessimist, and Flaubert's was not at all like that of Schopenhauer or Leopardi. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life It is, in the expression adopted by Schopenhauer later, an awakening from the dream of life: though this bears with it somewhat different implications; and, as has been said, his theory of individuality became modified. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z I don't suppose you know, for instance, that you are setting up an opinion of your own in opposition to such men as Schopenhauer. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The Chestertonian contention is that philosophers like Schopenhauer and Nietzsche have embarked on the suicide of thought, and that a later disciple to this self-destruction is Bernard Shaw. Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a class of people, the followers of Schopenhauer, who declare that life is not worth living. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story I think it was Schopenhauer who once remarked, "The more I see of human nature the more I respect my dog." The New Theology With the doctrine of the eternal life of the Will are connected Schopenhauer's theories, developed later, of the immortality of the species and of individualised sexual love. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z One remembers how both Schopenhauer and Heine sweep away the Hegelian Protestantism of their age and look for the spirit of Christ in other quarters. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations In the idea that Life in itself is a great guilt, Schopenhauer coincides with the teachings of Christ, though otherwise he has little regard for them. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature The young minister continued: "There is another class of pessimists who have never thought of following this Schopenhauer, but who, nevertheless, find life a burden and this world almost an inferno." The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story I hate ready-made phrases, which in my view—and in that of Schopenhauer—are the sure mark of a mediocre writer. When Winter Comes to Main Street Fundamentally, for Schopenhauer, teleology must of course be unconscious, since the will is blind, and will, not intelligence, is primordial. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Now these propositions are not merely snippets from a system of philosophy, presented after the manner of the admirers of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study This, too, was Schopenhauer's idea of the Drama. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Milton, in reality�in his temperament and his mood�was just as convinced of Will being the ultimate secret as Schopenhauer or Nietzsche or Bergson or the modern Pragmatist. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Schopenhauer, in this book, laid down the doctrine that the universe, and therefore human life as such, is governed by the conflicting principles of the ungoverned will and of the unattainable ideal. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) No doubt there are touches of pessimism in this statement; but the general theory does not seem reconcilable finally with pessimism as Schopenhauer understands it. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The present writer’s interest in and study of Theosophy and the Secret Doctrine were instigated by Schopenhauer’s “World as Will and Idea.” The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology There is perhaps no more frivolous notion than that to which Schopenhauer has given a new currency, that a good, once attained, loses all its value. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory His attitude toward our sex is so different from that of Schopenhauer, and many other philosophers. An Anarchist Woman Schopenhauer's book at that time passed almost unnoticed. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) As the immediate preliminary to his ethics proper, Schopenhauer restates his doctrine on the intelligible and the empirical character in man, and lays down a generalised psychological position regarding the suffering inherent in life. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer went, perhaps, as far to the opposite extreme. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology There is, accordingly, some justification in Schopenhauer's speculative assertion that music repeats the entire world of sense, and is a parallel method of expression of the underlying substance, or will. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory As Schopenhauer says, "The uneasiness which keeps the never-resting clock of metaphysics in motion, is the consciousness that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence." The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy In reading them one is not inclined to ask as of Schopenhauer's letters, why a philosophic genius of such depth should be laden with thousands of philistine trivialities. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 But of course the implication is that individuality is simply illusory; and this, as has been said, was a position that Schopenhauer neither could nor did consistently maintain. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Such are the "fulgurations" of Leibniz, those very rich digressions of Schopenhauer, etc. Essay on the Creative Imagination Beginning, no doubt, as a disciple of Emerson in New England, he fell under the spell of Balzac in Paris, of Schopenhauer and von Hartmann in Germany. The Merry-Go-Round There is a deep truth in what the school of Schopenhauer insists on,—the illusoriness of the notion of moral progress. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy I have made no research for great names in foreign countries, but some of the most illustrious stand prominently before the world representing the three greatest continental races: Victor Hugo, Wagner, Tolstoy, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Rousseau. Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Schopenhauer had no will thus to escape from life; nor did he afterwards devote himself to expounding further his theory of eternal justice. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z In his philosophical theory it plays the same part as Hegel's Idea, Schopenhauer's Will, Hartmann's Unconscious, etc. Essay on the Creative Imagination The sad Titanic works of Wagner, the friend and disciple of Schopenhauer, bear witness to the mystical affinity of music and despair. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 No reader of Schopenhauer can forget his frequent allusions to the trockener ernst of dogs and horses, nor to their ehrlichkeit. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy He had studied philosophy at Christiania, and since then, won to the ideas of Schopenhauer and Hartmann, he had found existence dreary, inept, chaotic. Tartarin On The Alps This difference between characters Schopenhauer goes on to explain in terms of his metaphysics. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer says that it is because of a sense of guilt—they contemplate the commission of a crime and, like other criminals, cover their tracks. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 The term will is used by Schopenhauer as a general term covering the whole dynamics of life, instinct and desire, as well as volition. The Approach to Philosophy It was a deep instinct in Schopenhauer which led him to reinforce his pessimistic argumentation by a running volley of invective against the practical man and his requirements. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy This cry was first uttered by the masters of contemporary thought,—a Schopenhauer, a Taine, a Tolstoy; below them, thousands of humbler voices repeat it in chorus. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Rights of property Schopenhauer derived from labour spent on the things appropriated. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The reef was Schopenhauer's philosophy; Wagner had stuck fast on a contrary view of the world. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Schopenhauer must be credited with a genuine effort to accept the metaphysical consequences of his epistemology. The Approach to Philosophy We are fascinated by Schopenhauer, and learn from him the true luxury of woe. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy After writing and publishing a few slight treatises Schopenhauer sent forth his great work, "The World as Will and Idea," which has immortalized him. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Many passages in Schopenhauer's writings prove his firm belief in the future triumph of reason over superstition. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z It was moreover an optimism for which Schopenhauer had devised an evil expression,—unscrupulous optimism. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. But the empiricism with which Schopenhauer began, the appeal to a familiar experience of self as will, has meanwhile been forgotten. The Approach to Philosophy At any rate the Schopenhauer Society is a very important learned body, and Prof. Deussen, of Kiel, is one of the most distinguished of German scholars. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship She could read Schopenhauer at sight; understand Browning in a minute; her soul was as big as her heart and her heart was two and a half sizes larger than the universe. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Beyond pure philosophy Schopenhauer does not profess to go; but he accepts what the mystics say as the description of a positive experience which becomes accessible when supreme insight is attained intuitively. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z The service which Wagner owes to Schopenhauer is incalculable. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Nor have attempts to avoid mysticism, while retaining Schopenhauer's first principle, been successful. The Approach to Philosophy But, father Max, have we not much greater modern Celsuses and Tacituses, for instance David Hume and Schopenhauer? The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour When it simplifies great events, as Stevenson said it must, it produces the feeling of power; and when it dignifies the commonplace, as Schopenhauer said it ought to, it produces the sense of importance. Days Off And Other Digressions Philosophical doctrines of justice are of course purely European; and Schopenhauer himself points out the sources of his own theory. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z You see how I misinterpreted, you see also, what I bestowed upon Wagner and Schopenhauer—myself.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. But, as Schopenhauer himself pointed out, individual wills cannot be distinguished except in terms of something other than will, such as space and time. The Approach to Philosophy At twenty-two my thoughts matched the epigrams of Rochefoucauld and my philosophy that of Schopenhauer. David Malcolm The ceremony was performed civilly, on a sudden impulse of what Schopenhauer would call "the genius of the genus." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Schopenhauer is not one of the philosophers who have founded a school, though he has had many disciples and enthusiastic admirers. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer rigorously pointed out the dishonesty of Hegel's and Schelling's age,—rigorously, but also unjustly, for he himself, the pessimistic old counterfeiter, was in no way more “honest” than his more famous contemporaries. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. The way of Schopenhauer is the way of one who adheres to the belief that what the thinker knows must always be a part of himself, his state or his activity. The Approach to Philosophy Some other, some self-existent thing is wanted, and with considerable insight Schopenhauer suggested that the key was to be found in the Will. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge Madame Schopenhauer moved to Weimar and opened there a sort of literary salon. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Schopenhauer declared as clearly as any of the Greeks that the phenomenal world is without beginning and without end. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer's philosophy has a more realistic character than that of Schelling's and Hegel's, his diametrical opposites, although he also belongs to the romantic school of thought. Evolution in Modern Thought But for Schopenhauer the internal world opens out into the boundless and unfathomable sea of the universal will. The Approach to Philosophy Schopenhauer has formulated a philosophy of pessimism, and through a host of the minor story-tellers and versifiers runs the note of discouragement and abandonment. The Chief End of Man Until Schopenhauer was past thirty he was known as the son of Johanna Schopenhauer. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Their affinity, therefore, seems to be with the Christian Gnostics rather than with the pure philosophers of the Greek tradition, continued in modern times by Bruno, Spinoza, and Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z It was this that made Schopenhauer regard art Page 345 as a rest from reality. Human Traits and their Social Significance The folly of willing for one's private self is the ground of Schopenhauer's pessimism. The Approach to Philosophy It was so that the nineteenth-century philosophers of Europe, of whom Schopenhauer was in this matter the extreme type, viewed the matter. The Task of Social Hygiene Although Schopenhauer's picture of the world is gloomy and somber, there is nothing weak or cowardly in his writings, and the extent to which he is read, proves he is not depressing. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Still, it must be allowed that a difference remains by which Schopenhauer was even more remote than they were from the later Greek idealism. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z To Schopenhauer music was the greatest of the arts because it made us at one with the sorrows and the strivings of the world. Human Traits and their Social Significance Here, contrary to the teaching of Schopenhauer, the good consists in individual attainment, the extension and fulfilment of the distinct interests that arise from the common fund of nature. The Approach to Philosophy I followed his glance, and I saw on the ground, under the armchair by the side of the bed, all white on the dark carpet, open as if to bite, Schopenhauer's set of artificial teeth. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. If any belief or any institution was in his way, the pilot in charge of the craft had better put his prow hard a' port—Schopenhauer swerved for nobody. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 And Schopenhauer's calling the non-rational or anti-rational element in the world 'will' helps to make plainer the real problem of evil. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z She, unfortunately confusing him with Schopenhauer, glibly attributed to him doctrines which would have outraged his soul could he have heard them. When Patty Went to College Its classic representative is the German pessimist Schopenhauer, who defined reality in terms of will because that term signified to him most eloquently the directly felt nature of the self. The Approach to Philosophy But I stood transfixed with stupor and fright: Schopenhauer was no longer laughing! The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. And here seems a good place to say that Schopenhauer's income was never over a thousand dollars a year until after he was fifty-six years of age. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 This argument is at any rate perfectly valid against Schopenhauer himself; for he holds in common with the optimistic teleologists that 'nature does nothing in vain.' Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer adopted the idea of Reincarnation which he had found in the Upanishads; regarding this portion of his teaching, his contemporaries and followers set up a kind of conspiracy of silence. Reincarnation A Study in Human Evolution Hence those voluntarists who emphasize the many individual wills and decline to reduce them, after the manner of Schopenhauer, to a universal, may be said to afford a direct justification of it. The Approach to Philosophy Let us protest and let us be angry, let us be indignant or let us be enthusiastic, Schopenhauer has marked humanity with the seal of his disdain and of his disenchantment. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. In Schopenhauer's philosophy, Will is something less as we know will, and something more than force. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Of the self-tormenting kind of asceticism, it is not enough to say with Schopenhauer that, since it is a world-wide phenomenon of human nature, it calls for some account from philosophy. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z "But it is good to fall in love, just as it is well to have the measles," to quote Schopenhauer. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians The one of these is the mysticism of Schopenhauer, the religious sequel to a universalistic voluntarism. The Approach to Philosophy Schopenhauer remarked that, "The power of religious dogma when inculcated early is such as to stifle conscience, compassion, and finally every feeling of humanity." The Necessity of Atheism Schopenhauer's life was quite as happy as that of many men who persistently depress us by requesting us to "cheer up." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Finally, may not some actual achievement, either practical or, like that of Schopenhauer, speculative, even if accompanied by real imperfections of character, possess a higher human value than the sanctity that rests always in itself? Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Schopenhauer was right in this matter; insensibility to noise argues a less refined organism. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques For Schopenhauer God is the universal solution, in which all motions cease and all differences disappear; here God is the General of moral forces. The Approach to Philosophy But if knowledge is capable of influencing conduct—which Schopenhauer himself would not deny—it is hard to understand why the knowledge of ethics alone should be fruitless in this respect.... Ethics in Service Schopenhauer says, "Don't try to cheer up—the worst is yet to come." Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 In 1874 he became professor of philosophy, and translated several works of Herbert Spencer and of Schopenhauer into French. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" I had, in the innocence of my Wissahickon soul, supposed Schopenhauer Wagner's favorite philosopher. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques They met under the Student Lamp and talked about Schopenhauer and Walter Pater, but the Affair never got beyond that Point. Knocking the Neighbors One minute he had talked to her of the effect on character of the geographical aspect of the country, sprinkling his remarks with "Schopenhauer maintains" and "Nietzsche says." Where the Sun Swings North When Heinrich Schopenhauer was forty he married a beautiful girl of twenty. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 I can imagine how angrily ruffled the sallow shade of Arthur Schopenhauer will become at the dawn of this spiritual Commune. The Joyful Heart In the corner of Schopenhauer's apartment there sat an effigy of the Buddha; volumes of the Upanishads lay on his table. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Roughly speaking, Schopenhauer maintained that life is unreasonable. George Bernard Shaw According to Schopenhauer the world is idea, and this so called material environment is thought objectifying itself. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing She had ideas about art and poetry, and was passing through her Byronic stage, before Byron did, and taking it rather hard, when her parents gave her in troth to Heinrich Schopenhauer, the rich merchant. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 This creature, however, is much more rare than the misanthropic Schopenhauer imagined. The Joyful Heart I should not like to go as far as Schopenhauer and say that it is a mere penal settlement. Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research |
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