Arthur Schopenhauer ( SHOH-pən-how-ər, German: [ˈaʁtʊʁ ˈʃoːpn̩haʊɐ] ; 22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal...
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
—Carlos Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan