During college, my class was instructed to study Schopenhauer in political philosophy.Complete bummer, pessimist, the guy just makes you want to kill yourself.There was one quote about him though that really opened my eyes.Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature... What he saw was not the world, but himself writ large." NietzscheSchopenhauer basically talked about himself. Not the world. His prior conclusions on how the world works influenced his work. However, you and I know t...