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The Quotations Home Page - Alphabetical by Topic - Series 21
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume
wealth without producing it. Youth is a wonderful thing
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The German philosopher Arthur Shopenhauer said, "Not only is optimism wrong, but it mocks all those who suffer."
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Another Philosopher named Shopenhauer wrote that, "the way to attain superiority in dealing with men is to let it be [clearly] seen that you are INDEPENDENT of them. And, [he added]..it is advisable to let every one of your acquaintances...feel now and then that you could very easily dispense with their company."
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The Retriever - Opinion As Arthur Shopenhauer stated, "With health, everything is a source of pleasure; without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable .... Health is by far the most important element to human happiness."
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Quotes about God, religion, philosophy, mortality, time, war, science & sex The fruits of Chrisitanity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades,
inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction
of African slaves in their place.
-- Arthur Shopenhauer
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It was Shopenhauer who helped make Buddhism something of a household word among the educated classes of the 1850s. Shopenhauer was particularly impressed by Buddhism’s denial of God. He believed that Eastern religion had shown great brilliance by moving both beyond the concept of God, and beyond the notion of earthly or heavenly happiness. Buddhists recognized the all important fact of human suffering and did not shrink from it. They also recognized that morality did not derive from godly commandments but from the capacity of individuals to identify with one another and that the highest morality was one where the barrier between self and others was totally annihilated. Another aspect of Buddhist genius was the notion that the ‘will’ or ‘spiritual force’ in the universe was totally unknowable. Because people thought that they knew God’s will, they were constantly striving to achieve unrealizable goals.
The payoff for Shopenhauer, and presumably for many Germans, was that this purposeless striving could be suspended by contemplation. For him, the contemplation was on art, music and other forms of culture than through meditation. But it allowed him to appreciate the moment without necessarily clinging to it. Other romantics also dipped into the Buddhist manner of relating to a transparent world. The artist Van Goth was impressed by the way that Buddhist artists could focus on something as simple a single blade of grass rather than having to elaborate a system.
Westerners were beg
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Shadows Of Illusion "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."...Arthur Shopenhauer
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Shadows Of Illusion "Happiness is a perfume, which you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself"
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Shadows Of Illusion Happiness comes most to persons who seek her least, and think least about it. It is not an object to be sought; it is a state to be induced. It must follow and not lead. It must overtake you, and not you overtake it.
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German Philosophy - Arthur Schopenhauer "There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life."
--Schopenhauer, Essays, Our Relation to Ourselves, sec. 24
"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."
--Schopenhauer, Essays, Personality; or What a Man Is.
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Not dancing, talking In each of the episodes, there are musings on how Socrates might help us to deal with unpopularity, how Epicurus thinks that consumerism cannot lead to happiness, how Seneca might help us face a broken heart, how Montaigne faced feelings of inadequacy, how a broken heart might be mended by thinking about Shopenhauer's views on romantic love, and how Nietzsche's philosophy can help us to cope with insurmountable hardship.
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Quotes May 2000 Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.
- Thomas Jefferson
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good & evil Criterion of Pleasure and Happiness:
The philosophers who consider pleasure and happiness to be the criterion of good are also far from the truth. The criterion of pleasure and happiness is baseless. No single measure can be laid down for pleasure and happiness. The measures and standards differ from man to man. For example, likes and dislikes of the rich and the poor widely differ.