Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport... - Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher best known for his book, The World as Will and Representation , in which he claimed that our world is driven by a continually dissatisfied will, continually seeking satisfaction. Independently arriving at many of the same conclusions of Eastern philosophy, he maintained that the "truth was recognized by the sages of India"; consequently, his solutions to suffering were similar to those of Vedantic and Buddhist thinkers . The influence of "transcendental ideality" led him to choose atheism. ...