Baltasar Gracián
Aragonese Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher in Castilian language (1601-1658) · Spain · Writers · Lived 1604 to 1658 · aged 54
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Something wrong?A Spanish Jesuit who wrote manuals on cunning and survival that later philosophers - Schopenhauer, Nietzsche - would study like field guides to human nature.
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Baltasar Gracián y Morales was born on 8 January 1601 in Belmonte, near Calatayud in Aragón, and became a Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer. In 1647 he published The Art of Worldly Wisdom, the book that would make his name beyond Spain - a collection of maxims on navigating power, deception, and social terrain. Between 1651 and 1657 he released El Criticón, a novel now considered his greatest work, though it never found the same audience. He died on 6 December 1658, his reputation quiet for centuries until Schopenhauer and Nietzsche discovered him and held his writings up as rare clear-eyed maps of how people actually operate.
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