Arthur Schopenhauer on aging and isolation.

Schopenhauer built his pessimistic philosophy on that of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), who also hated noise. Although gregarious ...

Arthur Schopenhauer—the 19 th century German philosopher for whom human existence was a perpetually swinging “pendulum between suffering and boredom,” and the world itself a hell in which “human ...

Arthur Schopenhauer, the renowned and eccentric writer whose works on the human will revolutionized modern philosophy was last seen in one of the Taunus mountain resorts up above Frankfurt sometime ...

The Art of Always Being Right by Arthur Schopenhauer edited by AC Grayling Gibson Square Books £9.99, pp190 Schopenhauer died 145 years ago. His strange essay, 'The Art of Always Being Right', was not ...

Since I am not an optimist by disposition, the very thought of weddings stresses me out. Not mine – that isn’t happening any time soon, if at all. No. Other people’s. They are an obstacle course of ...