Schopenhauerian
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a word derived from
Schopenhauer.
SchopenhauernounArthur 1788–1860, German philosopher.
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
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To be wrecked here, this was also a goal:—Bene navigavi cum naufragium feci … and he translated the “Ring” into Schopenhauerian language.
From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
But neither is Spinoza a shallow Schopenhauerian pessimist.
From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Joseph Ratner