Life lessons I learned from Arthur Schopenhauer — Transcript

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1. 0:00wealth is like seawater
2. 0:03the more we drink the thirstier we
3. 0:05become
4. 0:07and the same is true of Fame
5. 0:12health so far outweighs all other
6. 0:15blessings of life better truly healthy
7. 0:18beggar is happier than a sick King
8. 0:25whoever attaches a lot of value to the
9. 0:28opinions of others
10. 0:29pays them too much honor
11. 0:35the clever are not so much looking for
12. 0:37loneliness as they avoid the fuss
13. 0:40created by fools
14. 0:46if we suspect that a man is lying
15. 0:49we should pretend to believe him
16. 0:52for then he becomes bold and assured
17. 0:54lies more vigorously
18. 0:57and is unmasked
19. 1:02Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts
20. 1:05gradually set their mark on the face
21. 1:08especially the eyes
22. 1:13you should be careful not to form a very
23. 1:16favorable opinion about a person at
24. 1:18first acquaintance
25. 1:20otherwise in most cases
26. 1:24you will have to be disappointed
27. 1:29there is no doubt that life has given us
28. 1:33not to be enjoyed
29. 1:35but to be overcome to be God over
30. 1:43the greatest of Follies is to sacrifice
31. 1:45health for any other kind of happiness
32. 1:52the word of man is the most durable of
33. 1:54all material
34. 1:59each day is a little life
35. 2:03every waking and Rising a little birth
36. 2:06every fresh morning a little youth
37. 2:10every going to rest and sleep a little
38. 2:14death
39. 2:18a man can do what he wants
40. 2:21but not what he wants
41. 2:27a man can be himself only so long as he
42. 2:31is alone
43. 2:32and if he does not love solitude
44. 2:35he will not love freedom
45. 2:37for it is only when he is alone
46. 2:41that he is really free
47. 2:46almost all of our sorrows spring out of
48. 2:49our relations with other people
49. 2:55money is human happiness in the abstract
50. 2:59he then who is no longer capable of
51. 3:03enjoying human happiness in the concrete
52. 3:06devotes himself utterly to money
53. 3:12great men are like eagles
54. 3:14and build their nest on some lofty
55. 3:17solitude
56. 3:21willpower is to the mind like a strong
57. 3:24blind man who carries on his shoulders
58. 3:27a lame man who can see
59. 3:33the first 40 years of life gives us the
60. 3:36text
61. 3:37the next 30 Supply the commentary on it
62. 3:44it is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure
63. 3:47in order to avoid pain
64. 3:53sleep is the interest we have to pay on
65. 3:56the capital which is called an at death
66. 4:01and the higher the rate of interest and
67. 4:03more regularly it is paid
68. 4:06the further the date of redemption is
69. 4:08postponed
70. 4:13it's the niceties that make the
71. 4:15difference fate gives us the hand
72. 4:17and we play the cards
73. 4:23a man's face as a rule says more
74. 4:26and more interesting things than his
75. 4:29mouth
76. 4:30for it is a compendium of everything his
77. 4:33mouth will ever say and that it is the
78. 4:36monogram of all this man's thoughts and
79. 4:39aspirations
80. 4:43it is difficult to find happiness within
81. 4:46oneself
82. 4:48but it is impossible to find it anywhere
83. 4:51else
84. 4:55a high degree of intellect tends to make
85. 4:58a man unsocial
86. 5:02the young should early be trained to
87. 5:05Bear being left alone for it is the
88. 5:08source of happiness and peace of mind
89. 5:15whoever violated trust once loses it
90. 5:18forever
91. 5:22happiness belongs to those who are
92. 5:25sufficient unto themselves
93. 5:27for all external sources of happiness
94. 5:30and pleasure are by their very nature
95. 5:34highly uncertain
96. 5:36carius
97. 5:38ephemeral
98. 5:40and subject to chance
99. 5:45it is better to find your mind in
100. 5:48silence than in conversation
101. 5:54a vain person should know that the good
102. 5:57opinion of others which he so achieves
103. 6:00is much easier and more true to create
104. 6:03by silence
105. 6:05than by talkativeness
106. 6:11you generally won't lose a friend by
107. 6:13turning them down for a loan
108. 6:16but very easily by giving it to them
109. 6:22from the point of view of Youth
110. 6:26life is an endless future
111. 6:29from the point of view of old age it is
112. 6:31a very short past
113. 6:36if we were not all so interested in
114. 6:39ourselves
115. 6:41life would be so uninteresting that none
116. 6:44of us would be able to endure it
117. 6:50we can come to look upon the depths of
118. 6:53our enemies with as much regret as we
119. 6:56feel for those of our friends
120. 6:59namely when we miss their existence as
121. 7:04witnesses to Our Success
122. 7:09obstinency is the results of the will
123. 7:13forcing itself into the place of the
124. 7:16intellect
125. 7:20it is only at the first encounter that a
126. 7:24face makes its full impression on us
127. 7:29the man never feels the want of what it
128. 7:32never occurs to him to ask for
129. 7:38to live alone is the fate of all great
130. 7:42Souls
131. 7:46the doctor sees all the weaknesses of
132. 7:48mankind
133. 7:50the lawyer all the wickedness
134. 7:53the theologian
135. 7:55all the stupidity
136. 8:00the two enemies of human happiness are
137. 8:03pain and boredom
138. 8:08the more unintelligent a man is
139. 8:11the less mysterious existence seems to
140. 8:14him
141. 8:17politeness
142. 8:19is to Human Nature
143. 8:21what warmth is to wax
144. 8:27in our monogamous part of the world to
145. 8:30marry means to have one's rights and
146. 8:33double one's duties
147. 8:38we forfeit three-quarters of ourselves
148. 8:40in order to be like other people
149. 8:47reading is equivalent to thinking with
150. 8:49someone else's head instead of with
151. 8:51one's own
152. 8:56we will gradually become indifferent to
153. 8:58what goes on in the minds of other
154. 9:00people when we acquire a knowledge of
155. 9:04The Superficial nature of their thoughts
156. 9:07the narrowness of their views
157. 9:10and the number of their errors
158. 9:15life is short
159. 9:17and Truth Works far and lives along
160. 9:21let us speak the truth
161. 9:26a pessimist is an optimist in full
162. 9:30possession of the facts
163. 9:35to overcome difficulties is to
164. 9:37experience the full Delight of existence
165. 9:44life without pain has no meaning
166. 9:50never dare to rely on your relatives
167. 9:53because expecting something from others
168. 9:55makes you dependent and weak
169. 10:01don't tell your friend what your enemy
170. 10:03shouldn't know
171. 10:08a man's Delight in looking forward to
172. 10:10and hoping for some particular
173. 10:12satisfaction
174. 10:14is a part of the pleasure flowing out of
175. 10:16it enjoyed in advance
176. 10:20but this is afterward deducted
177. 10:23for the more we look forward to anything
178. 10:27the less we enjoy it when it comes
179. 10:33if they gossip about you
180. 10:35it means that you are enough not only
181. 10:38for yourself
182. 10:40but also for others
183. 10:45the wise have always said the same
184. 10:47things and fools who are the majority
185. 10:50have always done just the opposite
186. 10:56I've never known any trouble than an
187. 10:59hour's reading didn't assage
188. 11:05it is in the treatment of Trifles
189. 11:08that a person shows what they are