Schopenhauer
noun
Arthur 1788–1860, German philosopher.
Schopenhauerian
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a word derived from
Schopenhauer.
Example Sentences
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It is a gloomy, godforsaken land that well suits the Schopenhauerian concept of pessimism with which Wagner suffused his text.
From Time Magazine Archive
But neither is Spinoza a shallow Schopenhauerian pessimist.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner
Wotan must needs become a Schopenhauerian; and Siegfried, a pessimist at the close.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
He enters, and after some delirious pages not to be described in words the pair fall to talk in Schopenhauerian terminology about the light and the dark.
From Richard Wagner Composer of Operas by John F. Runciman
It is a well-known fact that this humbugging comedian had written the Ring of the Nibelungs before he absorbed the Schopenhauerian doctrines, and then altered the entire scheme so as to imbue—forsooth!—his music with pessimism.
From Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques by James Huneker
