Learning from Schopenhauer

19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer certainly never won the “Mr. Popularity” prize for his dismal perspectives on human life.  He’s probably best known for his views that intelligent people can never be happy, and that, in fact, the smarter a person is, the harder he needs to struggle to have friends and fit into the world around him.

At left, he says something that reminds us of my earlier post in which I suggested that people who our proud to be Americans, because of the accidental fact that they were born here and not Japan or Egypt, are not too bright.

IMO, we all have something important to learn from Schopenhauer, but I’m glad he wasn’t my father.