Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable metaphysical will. Wikipedia Born : February 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland Died : September 21, 1860, Frankfurt, Germany Influenced : Friedrich Nietzsche , Sigmund Freud , Albert Einstein , MORE Influenced by : Immanuel Kant , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , MORE Quotes All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. Books 書海微瀾: Parerga und Paralipomena by Arthur Schopenhauer ( 1788 – 1860) /The art of... HCBOOKS.BLOGSPOT.COM ------