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 ...

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. —Arthur Schopenhauer In his masterwork, The World as Will and Representation (1818), which is heavily influenced ...

Having taken on the origins of psychotherapy in the popular When Nietzsche Wept, psychiatrist-novelist Yalom now turns to group therapy and the thinker sometimes known as the "philosopher of pessimism ...

This essay takes issue with two truisms within Thomas Hardy criticism: first, the widely accepted view that The Woodlanders (1887) is Hardy’s most “Darwinian” work; and second, the standard assumption ...

Is there any meaning to life? Pessimist philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer in his essay The Vanity of Existence made the point that our lives have no absolute value. He said, "Human life must be some ...

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer is famous for his 19th-century contributions to the canon of Western thought, which include explorations on reason, free will, ethics, and quite a bit more. But ...

Dreams have been described as dress rehearsals for real life, opportunities to gratify wishes, and a form of nocturnal therapy. A new theory aims to make sense of it all. Source: Wikicommons The ...

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