Arthur Schopenhauer<br/>Born in Danzig in 1788, died in Frankfurt am Main in 1860,<br/>was an outsider among philosophers. He did not belong to any particular school but bravely opposed the dominant schools of thought of his time by taking a more physical, oriented philosophical path.<br/><br/>Human spirit, world history, meaning and goal, these are all illusions for him. For him the world is a senseless stage play of violence and agony.<br/><br/>Man, ruled by irrational instincts, world history without any purpose, without any meaningful development.<br/><br/>Life means suffering!