/lit/ - Literature

>>7539479
"I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought; this desire may be compared with the townsman’s irresistible longing to escape from his noisy, cramped surroundings into the silence of high mountains, where the eye ranges freely through the still, pure air and fondly traces out the restful contours apparently built for eternity."
-- Albert Einstein

>>7014234
Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my youth up, and a continual consolation and unfailing well-spring of patience in the face of the hardships of life, my own and others'. ~ Albert Einstein

Einstein was a Jew, and Schopenhauer was his favorite philosopher. Einstein was so enamored with Schopenhauer, in fact, that Einstein kept a portrait of him in his study alongside a handful of great mathematicians and scientists.

"I believe with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one’s own ever shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." -- Einstein

He was also Hitler's favorite philosopher. Hitler carried Schopenhauer's collected works with him throughout World War I and memorized a lot of them.

"Only writers of genius can have the right to modify the language. In the past generation, I can think of practically nobody but Schopenhauer who could have dared to do such a thing." - Adolf Hitler

Yes, Schopenhauer was so right that he was both Einstein and Hitler loved him. He was truly the Greatest of All Time.