Einstein and Schopenhauer

I did not know this: In Einstein’s study in Berlin in the 1920s, three portraits hung on the wall: Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, and Arthur Schopenhauer. I learned that from Don Howard’s fascinating “A Peek behind the Veil of Maya” (pdf). Schopenhauer’s pessimism was extreme. Reality, he wrote in The World as Will and […]

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