The complete online text of The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer.

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin...

The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late nineteenth century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine...

One of the leading German metaphysicians of the nineteenth century, Arthur Schopenhauer is exceptional in having had a widespread influence outside of philosophy; among his admirers may be counted such figures as Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Tols...

Abstract Performance is a way of organising for value creation. The kind of value performance art aims to generate is neither use- nor exchange-value but aesthetic value, philosophically defined as searching for 'the absolute'. Philosophical asthetics, from Kant to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche,...

For it is the case with regard to everything, that each man can only prize that which to a certain extent is analogous to him and for which he has at least a slight inclination.--Arthur Schopenhauer In his last years, Herman Melville...