Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes
Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.
Schopenhauer, Arthur. The Wisdom of Life: Being the First Part of Aphorismen Zur Lebensweisheit. Translated by T. Bailey Saunders, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1890, p. 76.
Describing politcy making in the Trump Whitehouse. This quotation has been cited by many who were studying Trimp's personality and style. Other Presidents would that meny people have and express their vires but in the final analysis, the President makes the decision. Trump's ego was such that he expands the notion to make this statement that so many poeople thought was so egocentric that it was inappropriate for a President of the United States where, it is the people who matter most. Trump did not have that view however.
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism. He was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance. His work has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism.