Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Arthur Schopenhauer on Truth

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

-Arthur Schopenhauer

A short video on Schopenhauer's work The World as Will and Idea: Part I

Primary Source: Translated by one of my college professors, Richard Aquila

Secondary Source: Schopenhauer: A Biography, by David E. Cartwright

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