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Arthur Schopenhauer

1788–186019th-century German philosophyModern (1800 – 1950)Person

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher, born in Danzig, known for the pessimism of his main work, The World as Will and Representation (1818/1819). He was among the first Western philosophers to draw on Indian thought, and he found a wide readership late in life with the essays of Parerga and Paralipomena (1851).

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Counsels and Maxims

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“The present alone is true and actual; it is the only time which possesses full reality, and our existence lies in it exclusively.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851), ch. II, §5, tr. T. Bailey Saunders
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Be present: the here and now is where life happens.Translation: public-domain translation (T. Bailey Saunders)
“we should sometimes try to look upon our possessions in the light in which they would appear if we had lost them”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (from Parerga and Paralipomena, 1851), ch. II, §14, tr. T. Bailey Saunders
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Give thanks.Translation: public-domain translation (T. Bailey Saunders)