The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
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gptkb:essayist
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gptkb:Arthur_Schopenhauer
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| gptkbp:contains |
On the Freedom of the Will
On the Suffering of the World On Women On the Basis of Morality On the Vanity of Existence |
| gptkbp:genre |
gptkb:philosophy
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The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
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gptkb:existentialism
gptkb:literature gptkb:psychology |
| gptkbp:influences |
gptkb:Immanuel_Kant
gptkb:Friedrich_Nietzsche gptkb:Sigmund_Freud |
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gptkb:German
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Compassion is the basis of morality.
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure. Life is a constant oscillation between the pain of boredom and the pain of suffering. |
| gptkbp:notable_themes |
morality
suffering aesthetics pessimism will to live |
| gptkbp:published_in |
1851
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| gptkbp:translated_into |
English
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gptkb:Arthur_Schopenhauer
gptkb:Schopenhauer |
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5
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