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Schopenhauer
[ shoh-puhn-hou-er; German shoh-puhn-hou-uhr ]
noun
- ·ٳܰ [ahr, -t, oo, r], 1788–1860, German philosopher.
Schopenhauer
/ ˈʃoːpənhauər; ˌʃəʊpənˈhaʊərɪən /
noun
- SchopenhauerArthur17881860MGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 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
- ˈDZˌܱˌ, noun
- Schopenhauerian, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- ····· [shoh, -p, uh, n-hou, uh, r-ee-, uh, n, -hou-er-, shoh-p, uh, n-hou-, eer, -ee-, uh, n], adjective
Example Sentences
Life, as the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once said, is a pendulum that swings between pain and boredom.
On what philosopher she thinks of when she thinks of pasta: Maybe Schopenhauer … yes, probably him.
And in between big block quotes of Seneca, Socrates, Schopenhauer and many more, that’s exactly what he does, in unsettling bursts.
At lunch in a Berlin restaurant, she reminds a retired maestro that the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once threw a woman down a flight of stairs.
He laughs, jokes and yelps, as he does in performance, but can also be sober and introspective, liable to quote Schopenhauer or Borges in conversation.
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