Schopenhauer
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Our optimism remains real, but that doesn’t mean we don’t need regular Schopenhauer reality checks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026
But Schopenhauer could not account for the elation with which residents of Chicago embraced an unlikely attraction this month: a hole in a sidewalk shaped like a rat.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
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.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Still, asks Schopenhauer, why should we be afraid of nonexistence since no one is troubled about having been nothing before his or her birth?
From Washington Post ● Jan. 13, 2021
We learned that a bright button is weightier than four volumes of Schopenhauer.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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