Underappreciated Schopenhauer quotes

Is Schopenhauer the Wolverine of philosophy?

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>>8627576
Anything he said about roastwhores, really.

The man was a fuckin genius and totally redpilled.
'On Women' will be studied for millennia

le meme

>>8627585
Kek, please someone photoshop this

>>8627586
Thread's already turned to shit. sorry OP

>>8627624

Been done already. Try google.

>>8627627

No kidding. I'll try to make a contribution at least:

"In fact, the conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another. Nay, from this point of view, we might well consider the proper form of address to be, not Monsieur, Sir, mein Herr, but my fellow-sufferer, Socî malorum, compagnon de miseres! This may perhaps sound strange, but it is in keeping with the facts; it puts others in a right light; and it reminds us of that which is after all the most necessary thing in life—the tolerance, patience, regard, and love of neighbor, of which everyone stands in need, and which, therefore, every man owes to his fellow."

>>8627576
that's essentially a paraphrase of shakespeare

>>8627576
>'women smell like girl stinks from their girl holes'

- Schopenhauer

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>>8627633

> ...the will must live on itself, since nothing exists besides it, and it is a hungry will. Hence arise pursuit, hunting, anxiety, and suffering.

> ...the unpurified mind... does not see to what extent the offender and the offended are in themselves one, and that it is the same inner nature which, not recognizing itself in its own phenomenon, bears both the pain and the guilt.

> Thus, because Christian morals leave animals out of consideration... therefore in philosophical morals they are at once outlawed; they are merely "things," simply means to ends of any sort; and so they are good for vivisection, for deer-stalking, bull-fights, horse-races, etc., and they may be whipped to death as they struggle along with heavy quarry carts. Shame on such a morality, which is worthy of Pariahs, Chandalas and Mlechchas; which fails to recognize the Eternal Reality immanent in everything that has life, and shining forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

>>8627585

The Heihachi of Philosophy.

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>>8627585
>>8627624

>>8628281
> Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom, bub.

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>>8628281
damn son

>>8628683
>And yours is about to swing all the way away from boredom.

>>8627576
>>8627585
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>>8628888
done

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>>8628939
image didn't export properly?

>>8627576

The scenes in our life resemble pictures in a rough mosaic; they are ineffective from close up, and have to be viewed from a distance if they are to seem beautiful

>With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

>yfw Schopenhauer called every beta who read on women wrong a lying immodest whore

>>8628945
It's perfect. Unlike the will to live which is forever striving and never in perfect harmony.

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>>8630213
>>8628281
>>8628939
>>8628683
>>8628888

Done.

https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/5806vn/lit_discusses_schopenhauer/

:^)

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>>8630252
you're a real fuckin jabroni

>>8627586

>Human life must be some kind of mistake

t. Schoppy

>>8629281

I really liked that similie.

And how about the Schopenhauerian ideal State?

> We have thus learnt to recognize in the State the means by which egoism, endowed with the faculty of reason, seeks to avoid its own evil consequences that turn against itself; and then each promotes the well-being of all, because he sees his own well-being bound up therewith. If the State attained its end completely, then, since it is able to make the rest of nature more and more serviceable by the human forces united in it, something approaching a Utopia might finally be brought about to some extent by the removal of all kinds of evil. But up to now the State has always remained very far from this goal; and even with its attainment, innumerable evils, absolutely essential to life, would still always keep it in suffering. Finally, even if all these evils were removed, boredom would at once occupy the place vacated by the other evils. Moreover, even the dissension and discord of individuals can never be wholly eliminated by the State, for they irritate and annoy in trifles where they are prohibited in great things. Finally, Eris, happily expelled from within, at last turns outwards; as the conflict of individuals, she is banished by the institution of the State, but she enters again from without as war between nations, and demands in bulk and all at once, as an accumulated debt, the bloody sacrifices that singly had been withheld from her by wise precaution. Even supposing all this were finally overcome and removed by prudence based on the experience of thousands of years, the result in the end would be the actual over-population of the whole planet, the terrible evil of which only a bold imagination can conjure up in the mind.

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> There is no greater contrast than that between the ceaseless, irresistible flight of time carrying its whole content away with it, and the rigid immobility of what is actually existing, which is at all times one and the same; and if, from this point of view, we fix our really objective glance on the immediate events of life, the "Nunc stans" becomes clear and visible to us in the center of the wheel of time. To the eye of a being who lived an incomparably longer life and took in t a single glance the human race in its whole duration, the constant alternation of birth and death would present itself merely as a continuous vibration. Accordingly, it would not occur to it at all to see in it a constantly new coming out of nothing and passing into nothing, but, just as to our glance the rapidly turning spark appears as a continuous circle, the rapidly vibrating spring as a permanent triangle, the vibrating cord as a spindle, so to its glance the species would appear as that which is and remains, birth and death as vibrations.

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> When, however, an external cause or inward disposition suddenly raises us out of the endless stream of willing, and snatches knowledge from the thralldom of the will, the attention is now no longer directed to the motives of willing, but comprehends things free from their relation to the will. Thus it considers things without interest, without subjectivity, purely objectively; it is entirely given up to them in so far as they are merely representations, and not motives. Then all at once the peace, always sought but always escaping us on that first path of willing, comes to us of its own accord, and all is well with us. It is the painless state, prized by Epicurus as the highest good and as the state of the gods; for that moment we are delivered from the miserable pressure of the will. We celebrate the Sabbath of the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.
>... It is the state where, simultaneously and inseparably, the perceived individual thing is raised to the Idea of its species, and the knowing individual to the pure subject of will-less knowing, and now the two, as such, no longer stand in the stream of time and of all other relations. It is then all the same whether we see the setting sun from a prison or from a palace.

>>8630252
>276 upvotes

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>>8632548

The absolute rhetorical madman

>>8631055
I've always admired how he is able to compress complicated ideas into such elegant compact paragraphs. It's not an easy thing to do but Schopy does it for EVERY paragraph he writes.

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>>8632733

Well, very often at least. He does get pretty repetitive and longwinded enough times to be annoying - Magee has a pretty funny section in his book on Schopenhauer where he takes him to task for this - and he has his share of vague sentences too. But by far the more memorable aspect of Schopenhauer's style are the clearly and gorgeously phrased descriptions of profound concepts.