Life swings like a pendulum back and forth between pain and boredom.
Das Leben schwankt gleich einem Pendel hin und her zwischen dem Schmerz und der Langenweile.
Philosophers
Arthur Schopenhauer
Born in 1788 in Danzig (now Gdansk), Arthur Schopenhauer constructed in The World as Will and Representation a metaphysics identifying the essence of reality as a blind, purposeless 'will.' Inheriting Kant's critical philosophy while becoming the first major Western philosopher to integrate Buddhist thought systematically, his pessimistic vision of human nature profoundly shaped Nietzsche, Wagner, and Freud.
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