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
Life, as the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, is a pendulum that swings between pain and boredom.
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
Reason, as Schopenhauer puts it, echoing Hume, is the hard-pressed servant of the will.
From Salon • Nov. 1, 2020
Schopenhauer, Kant, Nietzsche, naturally, I read all of those.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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