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 Bohemian-Spirit rated 15 months ago - From the page:Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
Schopenhauer, sometimes called "the gloomy philosopher," believed that people are perpetually unhappy because they are pushed by a natural will to strive forever without ever being satisfied.
But he believed that this instinctive will c...
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- penguin1 rated 15 months ago
- Schopenhauer, sometimes called "the gloomy philosopher," believed
that people are perpetually unhappy because they are pushed by a natural
will to strive forever without ever being satisfied.
"Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance, the landscape takes a different view from that which it presented at first, and changes again, as we come nearer. This is just what happens--especially with our wishes. We often find something else, nay, something better than what we were looking for; and what we look for, we often find on a very different path from that on which we began a vain search. Instead of finding, as we expected, pleasure, happiness, joy, we get experience, insight, knowledge--a real and permanent blessing, instead of a fleeting and illusory one."
- JesseMat rated 15 months ago
- Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance,
the landscape takes a different view from that
which it presented at first, and changes again,
as we come nearer.
This is just what happens--especially with our wishes.
We often find something else, nay, something better
than what we were looking for; and what we look for,
we often find on a very different path from that on which
we began a vain search. Instead of finding, as we expected,
pleasure, happiness, joy, we get experience, insight, knowledge--
a real and permanent blessing, instead of a fleeting and illusory one.
- Bohemian-Spirit rated 15 months ago
- From the page:Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
Schopenhauer, sometimes called "the gloomy philosopher," believed that people are perpetually unhappy because they are pushed by a natural will to strive forever without ever being satisfied.
But he believed that this instinctive will could be controlled through the intellect and reduce people's suffering.
Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance, the landscape takes a different view from that which it presented at first, and changes again, as we come nearer. This is just what happens--especially with our wishes. We often find something else, nay, something better than what we were looking for; and what we look for, we often find on a very different path from that on which we began a vain search. Instead of finding, as we expected, pleasure, happiness, joy, we get experience, insight, knowledge--a real and permanent blessing, instead of a fleeting and illusory one."
- Runningprof rated 15 months ago
- Our life is like a journey on which, as we advance, the landscape takes a different view from that which it presented at first, and changes again, as we come nearer. This is just what happens--especially with our wishes. We often find something else, nay, something better than what we were looking for; and what we look for, we often find on a very different path from that on which we began a vain search. Instead of finding, as we expected, pleasure, happiness, joy, we get experience, insight, knowledge--a real and permanent blessing, instead of a fleeting and illusory one.
- distortedjess rated 15 months ago
- that's one way of looking at it.
- Lorenr rated 15 months ago
- From the page: "Schopenhauer, sometimes called "the gloomy philosopher," believed that people are perpetually unhappy because they are pushed by a natural will to strive forever without ever being satisfied."
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