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Here is an astute quote from a leading Western philosopher who was a medical student. He led an interesting life and had many a connect with Indian philosophy and asceticism.
Like many a famous person, he gained recognition for his work only posthumously.
Schopenhauer was born on 22 February 1788, in Danzig (then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; present-day Gdańsk, Poland) and died on September 21, 1860, [Germany]), He is often called the “philosopher of pessimism.
In the fall of 1809 he matriculated as a student of medicine at the University of Göttingen.
He was among the first thinkers in Western philosophy to share and affirm significant tenets of Indian philosophy, such as asceticism, denial of the self, and the notion of the world-as-appearance.
Schopenhauer read the Latin translation and praised the Upanishads in his main work, The World as Will and Representation (1819), as well as in his Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), and commented, in the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life; it will be the solace of my death.
During his last 28 years, he lived in Frankfurt, which he felt to be free from the threat of cholera, and left the city only for brief interludes. He had finally renounced his career as a university professor and lived henceforth as a recluse, totally absorbed in his studies (especially in the natural sciences) and his writings. His life now took on the shape that posterity first came to know: the measured uniformity of the days; the strict, ascetic lifestyle modelled after Kant; the old-fashioned attire; the tendency to gesticulative soliloquy.
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