"Philosophy … is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions."
About Arthur Schopenhauer
German philosopher renowned for his book *The World as Will and Representation* and his pessimistic worldview.
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