“Schopenhauer is not an easy man to like – “a nasty piece of work,” says one biographer – but he is an easy man to admire. A lover of art and music, he developed one of philosophy’s most profound, and beautiful, theories of aesthetics, and influenced generations of artists and writers.”

“Schopenhauer is not an easy man to like – “a nasty piece of work,” says one biographer – but he is an easy man to admire. A lover of art and music, he developed one of philosophy’s most profound, and beautiful, theories of aesthetics, and influenced generations of artists and writers.”

— Eric Weiner