Pearls of Wisdom. Arthur Schopenhauer. Life[edit] Schopenhauer's birthplace house, ul.
Św. Ducha (formerly Heiligegeistgasse) In 1814, Schopenhauer began his seminal work The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung). Philosophy/Psychology. Philosophie. Philosophy. Voltaire (François Marie Arouet) THIS brilliant playwright is known to the world today not by his own name, but simply as "Voltaire," the name he adopted after the successful production of his first play, Oedipe, in 1718.
He was the son of a middle class family and was educated by Jesuit priests. From his earliest youth he seems to have been imbued with a spirit of skepticism and rebellion against intolerance. This characteristic which he was at no pains to hide, twice brought him imprisonment in the Bastille, and at a later date, periods of exile from France. Philosophy. Philosophie. Philosophy.