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Aug 18, 2020 · On 13 December 1807, in fashionable Weimar, Johanna Schopenhauer picked up her pen and wrote to her 19-year-old son Arthur: ‘It is necessary for my happiness to know that you are happy, but not to be a witness to it.’. Two years earlier, in Hamburg, Johanna’s husband Heinrich Floris had been discovered dead in the canal behind their ...
- Do Not Seek Wealth
- Do Not Seek Status
- Personality Is Crucial
- What Kind of Personality Makes You Happy?
- Avoid Problems
- Do Not Be Optimistic
- Shun People
- Do Not Marry
- Remain Yourself
Schopenhauer writes that a lot of money does not make one very happy. Everybody needs a basic income to be able to survive, but after that, wealth is very relative. This view is corroborated in the findings of contemporary empirical research. The many correlational studies listed in the WDH (findings on ‘Income’) typically show little relationship ...
Schopenhauer sees social status as fundamentally unimportant, but acknowledges that it is difficult to accept that people do not respect you. This view is not wholly supported by contemporary research findings. Many studies have found positive correlations between happiness and indicators of social prestige—in particular with occupational prestige,...
Schopenhauer declares that a person’s character is the basis for a relatively happy life. Other circumstances are less important. Our lives are destined by luck and the characteristics with which we are born. Schopenhauer therefore advises us to seek happiness in ourselves. Many empirical investigations on happiness consider its relationship to per...
Extraversion enhances well being, because of the greater sensitivity to rewards and by seeking more pleasant social interactions. Optimism stimulates happiness by generalized positive expectancies of the future and the related thought that outcomes in the future are under personal control. Neuroticism lowers well being by its focus on the negative ...
In Schopenhauer’s general rules, the emphasis lies on finding freedom from pain and being satisfied with little. This advice is unfortunate for two reasons. The first is that absence of distress is not sufficient to warrant happiness. We have described above that phlegmatic people are low on distress and low on well being. Also, choleric people are...
We mentioned above that optimism is correlated with higher well being, and it is worthwhile to go deeper into this subject, because Schopenhauer believed that superficial optimism would render people vulnerable to depression. He advised people not to be too optimistic, because the worst is yet to come. Research however shows that optimism is also a...
According to Schopenhauer people and friendship should not be trusted and especially the talented should prefer loneliness. The empirical findings indicate that this is not correct. A positive attitude towards social interaction and friendship shows a positive correlation with happiness and so does the number of visits of relatives, the number of f...
In Schopenhauer’s view, marriage has been created by women to make sure that men take care of them financially, and is something that would make men unhappy. This idea is not supported by contemporary data.Footnote 3In fact, being married is good for the well being of both men and women, but the correlations are even higher for men (WDH, correlatio...
Schopenhauer warns his readers about the dangers of conformism. You can better be yourself and not pay too much attention to the opinions of others. The existing findings on this subject are mixed. There is a positive correlation between happiness and being courteous, cooperative, tactful, conscientiousness, trustworthy and with seeking social appr...
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Apr 5, 2021 · Arthur Schopenhauer: On the Wisdom and Meaning of Life. “Life is a constant process of dying.”. “Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”. “A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man.”. “Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound ...
Feb 14, 2024 · Top 10 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes. Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer. To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence. Arthur Schopenhauer. The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. Arthur Schopenhauer.
Mar 27, 2024 · Top 10 Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes. “ Compassion is the basis of morality.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer. “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer. “A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.”. — Arthur Schopenhauer. “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”.
Nov 20, 2021 · Schopenhauer’s Exceptionally Wise Counsel. In the end, Schopenhauer says that being cheerful is the primary antidote to the oftentimes misery of life. This cheerfulness isn’t a positive emotion but a state of little pain, a contentment that doesn’t depend on external circumstances like being rich or famous.
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“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”~ Arthur Schopenhauer. 22.Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment. “Whatever one may say, the happiest moment of the happy man is the moment… falling asleep, and the unhappiest moment of the unhappy that of his awaking.”~ Arthur Schopenhauer. 23.
