Hunger, fear of death and sexual instinct. "The world is a mental hospital"

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) is the most famous thinker in the spirit of irrationalism and misanthropy. He called the existing world "the worst possible world," for which he received the nickname "philosopher of pessimism." Schopenhauer''s views on human motivation and desires, on human nature, influenced many famous thinkers, including Nietzsche and Freud, and his ideas were used in one way or...