Schopenhauer

In his college-age youth, Schopenhauer resolved to free himself from the commercial world and the study of medicine in order to devote himself exclusively to philosophy. His elders and mentors tried to warn him away from such “unpractical studies”, but he persisted.

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“Life is an unpleasant business; I have resolved to spend it reflecting upon it.”

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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[Source: Rudiger Safranski (tr. Ewald Osers), “Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy”]