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April 5 - April 26, 2020
All appearances are mere physical manifestations of an underlying reality, which for Schopenhauer is the WILL.
All appearances are mere physical manifestations of an underlying reality, which for Schopenhauer is the WILL.
Will is seen as the source of all suffering, since willing never brings contentment, but only further desire!
“We blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although we well know that it will burst.”
“a certain musical disposition of mind comes first, and after that follows the poetical idea”.
“We moderns have no culture to call our own. We fill ourselves with foreign customs, arts, philosophies, religions and sciences: we are wandering encyclopaedias.”
“All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline.”
“Real thoughts of real poets always go about with a veil on, like Egyptian women.”
“Q. Why do you write? A. I have found no other way of getting rid of my thoughts.”
“Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine.”
“In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.”
“The true man wants two things: danger and diversion. Therefore he wants woman, the most dangerous plaything.”
“The perfect woman tears you to pieces when ...
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“There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena …”
possesses them! “If you possess a virtue … you are its victim!” Thus,
we praise virtue in others because we derive advantages from it.
Politics: the Prostitution of the Intellect
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”
“Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.”
“There are no moral phenomena at all, only a moral interpretation of phenomena …”
“A profound man needs friends, unless he has a God. I have neither God nor friend.”
Never accept human reasoning at face value, for it seeks to mask what it fears to confront: some “very unpleasant truths”.
existence of a word guarantees the truth of what the word refers to.
“Any truth which threatens life is no truth at all. It is an error.”
