Baltasar Gracián
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales, better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by
Baltasar Gracián
El Criticón, first edition (1651).
Title page of the Manual Oracle and Art of Discretion, 1647
Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer, also known as the “Philosopher of Pessimism”, was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phen
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…was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. He is best known for his book The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), but his novel El Criticón (1651-57) is considered his greatest work. The…
Schopenhauer in 1859
Schopenhauer's birthplace house, Ul. Św. Ducha (formerly Heiliggeistgasse), Gdańsk
Schopenhauer in his youth
Schopenhauer in 1815. Portrait by Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl.