Life is suffering, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer famously wrote. Pretty sure he didn’t have professional sports in mind, it being the early 1800s and all. But nevertheless: Atlanta fans (and ...

This unique day honours India's first newspaper publication, emphasizing its function in influencing public opinion, ...

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German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, was a big influence in Nietzsche's writing. (Wikimedia/Free Domain) That doesn't mean ...

As Schopenhauer put it ... they have established a common market of sorts (Mercosur), providing free transit of goods, and a customs union. Two hundred years ago, Venezuelan Simón Bolívar ...

Bored and lonely, and obsessed with death, Laforgue admired Schopenhauer's pessimism ... Laforgue justified his word play -- his apparently free verbal associations, combining seemingly incommensurate ...

In Alain de Botton's 2009 classic The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, the Schopenhauer of modern work culture writes ... Arbeit macht frei' - Work will set you free - used in employment programs that ...

The philosophy of pessimism holds that life is not worth living and non-existence is preferable to existence. Perhaps the most fulsome exploration of this idea can be found in Arthur Schopenhauer’s ...

We all know about the First Amendment of the Constitution, but what does it really mean? Will free speech become a crime?