Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)

by Laurence Gane

For Schopenhauer, like his great predecessor Immanuel Kant, there is a fundamental distinction between the world as it appears (phenomena) and the world as it truly is (noumena).

Will is seen as the source of all suffering, since willing never brings contentment, but only further desire! (An echo of the teaching of Gautama Buddha.)

“There will always be too many people of property [wealth] for socialism to signify anything more than an attack of illness.”

“Socialism is the fantastic younger brother of an almost decrepit despotism, which it wants to succeed.”

“Politics may one day be found to be so vulgar as to be described, along with all party and daily journalism, under the heading: ‘Prostitution of the Intel lect’.”

This he calls the “genetic fallacy” – to judge a person on their origins rather than on their actions.

Never accept human reasoning at face value, for it seeks to mask what it fears to confront: some “very unpleasant truths”.