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Arthur Schopenhauer - One of the most famous thinkers of irrationalism, a misanthrope. He was drawn to German romanticism, was fond of mysticism, highly valued the main works of Immanuel Kant, calling them "the most important phenomenon that philosophy has known for two millennia", valued the philosophical ideas of Buddhism (in his office there was a bust of Kant and a bronze statue of Buddha), the Upanishads, as well as Epictetus, Cicero and others. Criticized his contemporaries Hegel and Fichte. He called the existing world, in contrast to the sophistical, as he put it, fabrications of Leibniz, "the worst of all possible worlds", for which he received the nickname "the philosopher of pessimism".