PHILOSOPHY - Schopenhauer
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Published 2015-10-02
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All Comments (21)
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The Germans are known for their light-hearted, good-humoured, cheerful stance on life.
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"Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard" easily the best description of post nut clarity I've ever heard
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' Purpose is a myth created by your will to give meaning to a life which in the end is meaningless ' Man he literally gave chills to me
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5:23 hits home pretty hard. "we are all just like animals except because of our greater self-awareness, far more unhappy than animals"
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When he was angry with his dog, he insulted him "you human"
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The quote by Socrates becomes all so relevant here. - "by All Means, Marry. If You Get a Good Wife, You'll Become Happy; If You Get a Bad One, You'll Become a Philosopher."
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His pessimism is so accurate and witty, that I found myself laughing at each of the quotations. He would have made an extraordinary stand-up comedian.
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My high school teacher told me that reading Nietzsche and Schopenhauer was just a phase. Decades later, I draw more consolation and inspiration from them than ever.
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Young Person: "I am in love!" Schopenhauer: "No, you're just another organism obeying the will of the species"
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"Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard." This quote is so amazing and funny hahaha
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"That's why the faces of almost all elderly people are deeply etched with such disappointment" 🤣 took me out!!!💀
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When i’m living alone with only a poodle for company, I’ll call it Schopenhauer
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I'm back
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"Marriage is a debt that is contracted in youth and paid in old age.”, "To marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties." My favorites from Arthur.
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Seeing how he interpreted the idea of love, I would’ve loved seeing his reaction and thoughts on homosexuality
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“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.” ― Arthur Schopenhauer
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I almost chocked on these beautiful quotes - "To marry means to do everything possible to become an object of disgust to each other." "Life has no intrinsic worth, but is kept in motion merely by desire and illusion."
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I like that he’s realistic and people will always hate the realism because its viewed as negative when in reality its true. most people dont want to own up to the truth and thats okay.
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It took me 36 years of aimless growing up to find the man who could explain to me that which was intuitively obvious on the first day of preschool: This world is an illuminated personal presentation of something utterly dark and impersonal. I am ever grateful to this genius. xo
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see." - Arthur Schopenhauer
