Schopenhauer

[ shoh-puh n-hou-er; German shoh-puh n-hou-uh r ]

/ ˈʃoʊ pənˌhaʊ ər; German ˈʃoʊ pənˌhaʊ ər /

noun

Ar·thur

[ahr-too r] /ˈɑr tʊər/,1788–1860, German philosopher.

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Scho·pen·hau·er·i·an

[shoh-puh n-houuh r-ee-uh n, -hou-er-, shoh-puh n-hou-eer-ee-uh n] /ˈʃoʊ pənˌhaʊər i ən, -ˌhaʊ ər-, ˌʃoʊ pən haʊˈɪər i ən/, adjective

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After all, as the German philosopher Schopenhauer said, “hakuna matata.”

At the Copenhagen Zoo, Humans Can Be Animals |Kevin Bleyer |March 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.

William H. Gass: How I Write |Noah Charney |March 13, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
For the philosophically minded, the reference to Schopenhauer is a clue as to what is happening to Bobby.

The Gem Trade's Shady Characters |Jonathan Blitzer |May 13, 2009 |DAILY BEAST
He blames the “hold-up” on an imaginary broker he calls (off the cuff) “Schopenhauer.”

The Gem Trade's Shady Characters |Jonathan Blitzer |May 13, 2009 |DAILY BEAST

It is, says Schopenhauer, in the full significance of the word, the flower of life.

Schopenhauer |Margrieta Beer
Schopenhauer wonders why Nature did not take it into her head to invent two entirely separate species of men.

We Philologists, Volume 8 (of 18) |Friedrich Nietzsche
In the first seven verses of this discourse, I cannot help seeing a gentle allusion to Schopenhauer's habits as a bon-vivant.

Thus Spake Zarathustra |Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus, as he escaped from Schopenhauer's pessimism, he plucked from his heart his affection for Wagner.

Egoists |James Huneker
Schopenhauer was interested in the vast ancient literature and philosophy on this subject.

Taboo and Genetics |Melvin Moses Knight, Iva Lowther Peters, and Phyllis Mary Blanchard

British Dictionary definitions for schopenhauer

Schopenhauer

/ (German ˈʃoːpənhauər) /

noun

Arthur (ˈartʊr). 1788–1860, German pessimist philosopher. In his chief work, The World as Will and Idea (1819), he expounded the view that will is the creative primary factor and idea the secondary receptive factor

Derived forms of Schopenhauer

Schopenhauerian (ˌʃəʊpənˈhaʊərɪən), adjective Schopenhauerism, noun

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