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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), wherein he characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and malignant metaphysical will.

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