Arthur Schopenhauer — German Philosopher born on February 22, 1788, died on September 21, 1860

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, in which he characterizes the phenomenal world, and consequently all human action, as the product of a blind, insatiable, and malignant metaphysical will... (wikipedia)