Schopenhauer

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Schopenhauer
“Schopenhauer.” (5 July 2025)
In the archive
Portal	The Philosophers
Posts	8
Retweets	52
Likes	565
First post	20 January 2018
Latest post	12 September 2025
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Schopenhauer appears in only 8 posts, spread thinly from 2018 to 2025. GritCult uses him for aphorisms rather than for his system: genius, human cruelty, politeness, beauty. The recent image posts, on solitude and on reading, are the most widely shared.

Views

The early posts are one-line quotations with a dark edge: 'Life is a constant process of dying' ^[1] in 2018 and, in 2023, the claim that man is the only animal to cause pain to others 'with no other object than wanting to do so' ^[2]. Beside them sit more practical lines, on genius as the ability to hit 'a target no one else can see' ^[3] and on politeness as warmth to wax. A 2020 joke that 'modern day Schopenhauer's are weebs' ^[4] plays on the philosopher's taste for the East, recast as a taste for anime.

Since 2024 the Schopenhauer posts have been images with little more than his name as caption, and they draw most of the attention. One, 'Schopenhauer on beauty' ^[5], shows his passage on beauty as a personal advantage that predisposes others in one's favour. The most-shared, from July 2025, carries his line that a man can be himself only while alone and is only then really free ^[6]. In September 2025 came his warning to read only when one's own thoughts dry up ^[7], a pointed choice for an account built on quotation.

Recurring themes

• life as slow dying
• cruelty without motive
• genius as seeing the unseen target
• solitude as freedom
• thinking before reading

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 19 retweets:

Selected posts

All 8 posts in the archive about Schopenhauer, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
5 July 2025	19	268	Schopenhauer.		View
12 September 2025	10	159	Schopenhauer		View
30 November 2024	10	71	Schopenhauer on beauty		View
20 January 2018	6	8	Life is a constant process of dying. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer		View
13 January 2023	5	34	"MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL WHO CAUSES PAIN TO OTHERS WITH NO OTHER OBJECT THAN WANTING TO DO SO." - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER		View
30 October 2020	2	12	Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer.		View
22 October 2021	0	9	"POLITENESS IS TO HUMAN NATURE WHAT WARMTH IS TO WAX." - ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER		View
22 August 2020	0	4	@BlackLodgeAgent @KBULTRA0 Could argue anime is an import of the orient And modern day Schopenhauer's are weebs		View

History

GritCult first posted about Schopenhauer on 20 January 2018, and most recently on 12 September 2025. Across the archive the subject comes up 8 times, most often in 2020 (2 posts).

See also

The Philosophers portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (20 January 2018). Life is a constant process of dying. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 January 2023). MAN IS THE ONLY ANIMAL WHO CAUSES PAIN TO OTHERS WITH NO OTHER OBJECT THAN WANTING TO DO SO. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 October 2020). Genius hits a target no one else can see. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (22 August 2020). And modern day Schopenhauer's are weebs. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 November 2024). Schopenhauer on beauty. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (5 July 2025). Schopenhauer. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (12 September 2025). Schopenhauer. X.

External links

• Posts about Schopenhauer by GRITCULT on X
• Schopenhauer on Wikipedia