The Darkest Philosopher in History - Arthur Schopenhauer
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In this video, we cover the life and philosophy of one history's darkest and most comprehensive philosophers, the original pessimist, Arthur Schopenhauer.
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“Talent is hitting a target no one else can hit, genius is hitting a target no one else can see”. ~Arthur Schopenhauer
By that logic, i do wonder if talent is necessary for genius. If not, what else.
@@justafighter1346 If we define talent as a mix of capable intellect and a favorable combination of cognitive strengths and weaknesses for a given task I'd say genius needs talent and the level of self confidence, selfishness, and arrogance to say "the thing everyone agrees on is wrong and I am right" along with the luck to be set on the right path in the right place at the right time for the unusual trait combination to manifest it's genius
Just commenting to bookmark this comment
so
True
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
Can't really be myself when I am not alone. We will have versions of ourselves to be played in front of different people.
Perfect Quote ❤️
That's ignorant.
A free man is a warrior
Because a warrior is not a slave.
He must require strength
Because otherwise
He will never attain power.
A man cannot be free
Unless he is alone.
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
That is why you should do drugs! Even though they don't bring happiness but serve as a catalyst to that happinesses! But that is only my personal opinion and I'm no philosopher either!
@@chaoticevilwinds6669 ummm... "Drugs" is a little TOO broad.
Let's focus down on Psychedelics.
@@refundreplay Well whatever works for you man but enjoy yourself in this dystopian kingdom called humanity!
@@chaoticevilwinds6669 all I'm saying is, I've never met anyone in the depths of a heroin addiction who said they were happy.
That ONE person probably exists, but I'd wager they aren't being honest. However, many studies indicate that happiness is a byproduct of a properly accommodated Psychedelic trip
Now, that said, I 10000000000000000% support each adult's right to choose what they put in their bodies as long as the consequences are confined to them and not children, non-consenting adults or the community at large.
@@chaoticevilwinds6669 i wouldnt do drugs my friend. They don't bring any long term happiness or satisfaction and the pleasure goes away quickly and the shame and guilt remains...
"I tried so hard and got so far, but in the end it doesn't even matter" -Arthur Schopenhauer
No, that's linkin park and that guy killed himself, sooo...
I sung that lmao
@@professorfukyu744 why do people like you even continue to exist? lol Nobody likes people who don't understand jokes and need to correct others because of their frail ego
@@covalentbond7933 u mad, bro? Want a hug?
@@covalentbond7933 fuckkk🤣🤣🤣
“Why everybody be quoting me in da comments dawg”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
lmfao
“this dude fucks” -Abraham Lincoln
Lol
@Exploring Consciousness -Wayne Gretzsky
@@jacob9673 Was about to reply with an Abraham Lincoln quote! 😆
"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Yet there needs to be excitement and painlessness to even distinguish the former ones. Bit shortsided, Arthur?
@@DamianSzajnowski that's not true. What's your evidence
@@DamianSzajnowski What he meant is that we do have those moments of excitement and painlessness only to emphasize how painful and boring life usually is. Pain and boredom being the two ends of pendulum and painlessness and excitement falling right in the center of the movement of pendulum.
@@DamianSzajnowski yes, it's the time when the pendulum is in the center for a fraction of a second.
Arthur Shopenhauer has copied all his ideas from UPANISHADS , sacred texts of India and it has nothing to do with Euroepan or western original creations ! PLEASE do your research correctly. I have written a book in french about this "intellectual thefts of the west" alongside the natural ressources..shame on those who try to hide the truth .
I always found that one of the biggest issues with the self-help niche is toxic and dogmatic positivity. I'm not saying everyone says this but the idea of constantly looking at the bright side and shielding yourself from the negativity of life is, at least to me, not the way forward.
This world is painful, confusing and horrifying, but it's also beautiful, awe-inspiring and breathtaking and we need to embrace all of it in its entirety.
Your second para is the answer to your question in 1st para
Interesting. How do you embrace the pain and sorrow of life? And what do you think about some ideas like "don't cling to the pains and enjoy all little things in life" or something like that. Does that idea contradict your idea?
@@LeKhang98 I think it's more like remember the pain and sorrows of life, but do try to cherish the little things when experienced.
The world isn't any of those things. It just is what it is. We somehow decide its beautiful/scary, amazing,painful. You think the forest gives a shit that you think its pretty or that at night when no ones around and it's dark that same forest looks scary. Or that it changes anything about reality, how we perceive it. It's just a forest at the end of the day. It is what it is. As is the world. It just is what it is. Let go of your duality about things.
@@walkdeep thats a pretty bland way of percieving life. do you really think we live in a black & white world where everything is what ot is & continues to just be? if our consciousness has the capatability to find meaning in something, that ability must have a meaning in itself just like how ecosystems have inherent purpose in natural connections. consciousness is colorful & so complex, so if we have consciousness then it must reflect something else that has consciousness. like nature.
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.” - Arthur Schopenhauer
Fantastic aphorism - because the relentless 'will' overcomes the inertia otherwise due to friction that would bring the pendulum to rest; well until death eventually does
For me creating my own pain in the gym lowers all other pain in life.
@@chrisom4699 same, here, lost my job currently and out of work, so i can go to the gym i feel like shit but ill go back, life is pain so i embrace the pain,
Always expect the worst,that way you'll never be disappointed. J. Schmoe
As miserable as life can be ,it could always be worse, you could be married
"If she leaves you for another, you shall persue her mother." -Arthur Schopenhauer
That’s what did .. had to hold my nose... nasty
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Thank you papa Schopenhauer
"You shall pursue your OWN mother."
- Sigmund Freud
LMAOAO
"Everybody wanna be a bodybuilder, but nobody wanna lift no heavy ass weights."
-Albus Dumbledore
That sounds very much from another philosopher. Ronald Coleman.
you mean Dumbbelldore*
"Light weight BABY!!!"
- Dobby
That's from a Joe Rogan podcast
Yeah buddy😎😂😂😂
“I probably didn’t say all these shit.” ~Arthur Schopenhauer
HAHAHAHAHHAHA
*this
Omg that was a perfect plant! Haa
LMAOOOO
God damn it
I think Schopenhauer is one of the more easily accessible philosophers. His work has you nodding your head in agreement often, and you realize he is telling you things you know intuitively.
Or the thinks you love to deny or hate to be true. I am sad and everything resonates only that I wish he didn't have to kill the hope lol. He even calls hope confusion between what we wish to happen with it's probability!
@@outps very true. He is not for the faint hearted. Lol. Everything you know he is right about, you wish he wasn't.
could you recommend his books to start with if you tryna get into him
thats how it works when somebodys right lol. people saying they have debunked him i do not think understood what he was saying.
@@saneleonly essays and aphorisms. you could choose to start with any of his topics in that book that interests you and go from there
When your philosophy is so dark, that Neitzsche's work feel positive in comparison
Nietzsche's work isn't "dark" at all. He's main goal was to create a path to uplift a man to higher level of being after all.
@@Z1g0l yeah I'm not saying that its dark, literature is a subjective thing anyway......... my context was on how its usually perceived to be dark.
@@prathamsharma3101 aahhh daddy
I firmly believe that the only power anyone or anything has over my perception, experience and life is the power i give it. That also includes myself. I know that i do not know and that my perception of reality is flawed most of the time if not all the time for it always is based on assumptions which are the result of previous experiences which which are no garuentee for the future and simply fall apart in the face of reality as it is instead of how i wish or want to perceive it.
This gives me the opportunity to gradually, slowly, but surely adjust my perspective and perception to the constantly changing reality as it is and develop my self as a responsible human being.
The highest good which i could conceptualize for my self is individual responsibility, or the ability to respond as opposed to merely and automatically reacting to circumstances in the way that i was thought and learned to do so.
For who am i and what is my life worth and what meaning does it hold if i am not the one who decides how to live live but am lived by it through conditioning from external circumstances and through the opinions and perspectives of others?
The only thing i ever have control over is how i choose to look at and deal with external circumstances as they happen, for the mere fact that they do happen. Who i am is the result of anything i have ever experienced, thought, acted out and said.
Who i am is not merely the result of external circumstances but a result of how i perceive them. My thoughts are the result of external circumstances and how i perceive these circumstances. My acts and then words are the result of my thoughts.
My habits the result of my acts and words, my character the result of my habits, and my Destiny the result of my character.
The perspective on this can ofcourse also be turned backwards on this. Whatever way you want to perceive it.
Ones own Perception and perspective is all what one has because the freedom and ability to perceive from a different perspective leads to individual responsibility, discipline and freedom of both mind, body and spirit.
Another part of the whole is that my experience is also partly the result of my perception. If i change my perception i change my experience and thus my thoughts, acts, words, habits, character and destiny.
Self Response Ability. Fear, stress and disease comes from ignorance and brings darkness and death. Knowledge is the light that illuminates, sets free and dispels all darkness and shadows which is nothing but the absence of light.
Just as there cannot be light without darkness there can also be no darkness and without light. Live in light and you will live in love, live in darkness and you will not. In the country where i live we say that after rain comes sunshine, but without rain you wouldnt apreciate the sun.
Consciousness is that which we experience between differences, contrast is needed in order to experience, live and be.
No up without down. Left without right, black without white. Being consiouss is transcending all differences and contrast and to experience all as one and one as all.
Denying differences and contrast leads to the exact oposite of being consiouss and experiencing life, it leads to unconsciousness and death.
@@johnsheppard1673 I think you submitted your philosophy essay at a wrong place......... but still 10/10 from me👍
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
Agreed
Arthur was ahead of the curve on this too.
Schopenhauer was a furry then.
-Arthur Schopenhauer after watching John Wick
@@bunkmaster6998 why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?
“One small step for a man, one meaningless leap for mankind”
~Arthur Armaströnger
"One small step for a man, but a normal one for a midget." - Lance Armstrong.
LMAO
''One small step for a man, one meaningless leap for mankind."
Oddly comedic quote despite the realism of it. Lmfao.
@@Kamil987987 😂
"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial"
-Arthur Schopenhauer
This is the only real quote here
Am i a genius??? 🌚🎈
@@bhaichaddiultipehnihe think about it
@@karuined4550 oh I realise i ain’t a man though 🌝🌚
@@bhaichaddiultipehnihe now you know
"The safest way of not being miserable is to not expect to be very happy"
I kinda like that ring, thanks Sir Arthur Schopenhauer.
thats so depressing tho
@@Toxiic115 No, having that mindset doesn't change the fact that you will be very happy at times. The expectation of being happy will also make you more miserable when you won't get it. 2 ways lead to suffering: not getting what you want and getting something that you don't want.
Don't try to control what you can't control, rather let go of your expectations and accept what comes your way. It might be great happiness or depressing mediocrity, but at least you're not making it worse.
Or a modern variant, "the secret of happiness is low expectations."
I love that
That's also a Buddhist philosophy.
"Stay strapped, or get clapped"
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
🤣🤣🤣
daphaq?? im dead lmao
LOL!!
😂
@@tnrtnr7706 no cat on dog.
“They don’t think it be how it be but it do” -Schopenhauer
So ahead of his time lmao
True facts.
Amen
It is what it is
Nah yo chill that’s profound
"Everybody wanna be a philosopher, but nobody wanna read no heavy ass books." - Arthur Schopenhauer.
Fr
Baby books, give me baby books
Ironic considering Schopenhauer thought Hegel was too hard, and convoluted
"Yeahh buddy, light novel" - Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing but a penis- Freud
"It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find happiness in the comment section."
-Arthur Schwarzenegger
Wow such words of wisdom! give this man shit! nah jk XD
He never said this
Good one.
Waw, binaboy mo stairway to heaven, panalo!!!
Welcome to philosophy video comment sections, where people think acting nihilistic and edgy makes them smart
"Buy a man a plane ticket, he will fly once. Throw a man off a plane, he will fly for the rest of his life"
~Arthur Joemama
Sorry to be picky, but plunging to the Earth isn't flying...except when it is...
@@loge10 🤣🤣
@@loge10 lmaoo
falling in style
Who's Arthur?
"A foolish man complains of his torn pocket, while a wise man uses it to scratch his balls."
- Arthur Schopenhauer, probably
lmao
Lmfao
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Please😂😂
They got us in the first half, not gonna lie...
Arthur Schopenhauer may be a “dark” philosopher but he had really good insights into health and living a good life.
He had a habit of taking daily walks no matter the weather. He played the violin. And he also believed that a healthy body is required to bear the brunt of existence.
“With health, everything is a source of pleasure… without it, nothing else, whatever it may be, is enjoyable. Health is by far the most important element in human happiness.”
I really liked the contrast between him and Nietzsche. That's really important to know how their philosophies were very similar but also opposite
Honestly, did u write Nietzche 's name without any sort of help???
I still cant spell it after years ...lol
@@truthseeker7041 I did haha. I definitely can't write Schopenhauer without looking it up though
I agree, I always think of Nietzsche as the more upbeat version of Schopenhauer. They both agree on the starting conditions of life but come to completely different conclusions. Makes it all the more painful when people refer to Nietzsche as a nihilist. If anything putting him side by side with Schopenhauer reveals how happy and optimistic his philosophy is.
@@dragoneagle11 well its interesting cuz Neitzsche viewed life as a mirror reflecting in another mirror, completely self contained, and thus their was no need for optimism or pessimism, simply understanding.
The similarity is that they both suck
The fact that a philosopher who sees sentient life for what it is, is considered ‘the darkest philosopher ever’ tells you everything you need to know about the world around us
Thank you! Ridiculous times
The most blatant and simple truth is apparently the darkest.
The ideas he proposes are obviously very dark and difficult to cope with should you accept them as fundamental truth.
Facts nobody wanna keep it real fr lol
That is just your opinion not facts
“Ballin, but at what cost”
-Arthur Schophenauer
The death of a few dozen migrant workers, but it was totally worth it
"I am the LORD of the Rings"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
@@Watchmanskey I believe there were three rings, like a circus, and each ring represented a level of psyche. Id, Ego, SuperEgo, father,son,holy ghost
So you want to be a rock superstar?
And live large
A big house. Five cars, You're in charge.
Comin' up in the world.
Don't trust nobody got to look over your shoulder constantly
@@notinterested8452 wtf LOL
The most rational, no bs philosopher, very ahead of his time.
"It takes 2 wipes to know you needed 3, however it takes 3 wipes to know you only needed 2"-Arthur Schopenhauer
Get a bidet
nice stolen joke. now try to remember it correctly..
“It takes as many wipes as it takes to know that you need no more wipes” After Schitenscour
@@yoda9518 If a bidet did a perfect job at cleaning all filth, I would've gotten one. I prefer the butthole sanitizing air pressured device
@@Davidvanzutphen water is the universal solvent, not air. A bidet does a good a job as you can ask for. Give it a chance. Might have to use TP as a dry wipe but you only need one. And your pretty clean.
"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
Right now, I'm practicing both balanced pessimism and stoicism. Pure pessimistic thinking can be exhausting.
Yeah... but you're not 😐
@@RajSinghTanwar_ man 😂😂
@@weezybabeym4873 😂
@John-Paul Hunt ok boomer
"When people agree to disagree, put some dirt in their eyes".
- Bully Maguire
Coming from barely discovering Bully Maguire yesterday, I find your comment to be exceedingly punctual and incredibly funny.
But why?
Will do cuz
Step two-get religion.
🤣🤣🤣
"Life doesn't get better,you just get used to it." - Not Arthur Schopenhauer
“After awhile, you can get used to anything” - Albert Camus
"The world is cruel, yet beautiful."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The world is as we see it.
@@johnsheppard1673most humans see the world through unresolved trauma lenses. Very few see it beautiful because very few people had healthy parents. In order to see beauty you have to first see it in yourself. And that is a Herculian task that most of humanity will die before they get " there". There are stages to get " there". Each stage of healing completed will coincide with how you see the outside. The reality is that we are in excruciating pain of never getting unconditional love from our parents. That lack of true love is the primary wound that is saturated with shame of being defective. It's an epidemic on a global scale. The most difficult thing in life is to truly forgive and to love oneself. To flow with no fear and anxiety just being. Everything else pales in comparison. The well in society is dry. It's so f......difficult to heal and put back together these fragments without a resonant witness. Beauty can be seen by healthy eyes. It cannot be forced.
Mikasa
@@ceoleo-lx5lz Ding ding we have a winner!
Arthur Shopenhauer has copied all his ideas from UPANISHADS , sacred texts of India and it has nothing to do with Euroepan or western original creations ! PLEASE do your research correctly. I have written a book in french about this "intellectual thefts of the west" alongside the natural ressources..shame on those who try to hide the truth .
The ad at the end is next level. So creative!
This comment made me continue
Genius marketing! Get this man an advertising job!
But at the end it's all meaningless
To be honest. Thought thus was real lol
Bro no spoilers
"Art is a transcendent-like experience that provides relief and comfort from existence"
Just commenting to bookmark
@@germa9850 or it can be a money-laundering scheme for oligarchs. Whatever floats your boat.
good art. you forgot to mention that he said GOOD art. forgetting that little but very important word : "GOOD" is very convenient for someone that does not endorse good art. you can give weight to horrid art and say "but schopenhauer said that art provides relief"
and no, shaving your head and dilating your ears is not good art. in fact... if you knew where the trend comes from, i am pretty sure that you won't like it anymore.
@it'sMe TheHerpes I was referring to the fact that engaging in art gives you relief from experiencing reality, not simply observing art and feeling compelled to call it good or bad. If you resonate with something that is meaningful to you and the artist, then that art is good for you. Everything is subjective, my friend. No need to be mean✌️
@@LauraDreams nah, not everything is subjective, but that is not something to talk about in a comment section of a media outlet that censors messages
"I need your clothes, boots and your motorcycle."
Arnold Schwartzenhauer.
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....leaves for a minute, comes back. "The keys bitch."
The fact that nowadays he's still impopular shows that he wasn't only ahead of his time, but of ours too.
Or he could be talking crap. Just putting that out there.
@@MachineMan-mj4gj lmao, yeah, that could be possible
“Unpopular”
...How is he unpopular??
Actually he’s super famous, for a philosopher
I hate to admit it, but I think the life view that Schopenhauer has is just the true one.
But I think his point of view is achieved only after experiencing a really hard event in your life that shakes yourself to the point you stop see the world for what it's not, and start to see it for what it really is. It's like a negative awake, but sadly is the true one...
Same. It's sad that most people, even ones who know and read philosophy, regard his views as insane.
The man spoke truth, it's not his fault the truth is so so bitter and hard to accept.
Very true. When my pa died when I was 15. He grinded at this company for 20 years and it got bought by a bigger corporate company. They wouldn’t honor his stock options or the bonus structure he got paid out on from wins. Basically millions robbed from him and they pretty much said don’t like it? Leave. He was a year away from retiring. All those late nights. He was so angry and the powerlessness of the situation ate away at him. Then he got physically ill. And died 5 months later. I was there for his last moment and the last words he said to me was: “Wait. No. No. I don’t want to die. There’s still so much I have to do. Im not ready. I just want one more chance.”
This one event is what shattered my rose colored glasses for life. That’s when the pop music I listened to turned into metal.
You can view life negatively but still exude positivity from your own self .. life is about balance , not one philosophy or another .
Then many people either never read him or fail to understand him at all. His view on life is not complicated. You can sum it up in a very short time period and it could already be life altering.
I'd like to add that it doesn’t take much to see the world for what it is. It’s just that most folks never care to look.
They rush from one activity to the next but they never stop to _watch_ *all of it* . There are many possibilities that can lead you to question the fabric of our reality. Be it a natural curiosity or a shock.
@@Arcaryon The majority of people simply can't see it or don't want to see it. But I understand why: acknowledge the truth and keep living is really heavy, people don't want to deal with such problems because they are scared to. Otherwise, some people simply not have idea because of their limitated view.
“So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
This resonates now more than ever...
He wasn't that dark; if anything, only about humanity. He actually loved animals and always owned a dog throughout all of his life until his death.
"Compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character that it can be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
I perceive the concept of calling him "darkest" was similar to a marketing strategy. A simple exaggeration for views and clicks. His philosophy was honestly more of the truth and nature of us people.
Hitler loved animals
@@Elite0301YT Who is the real "darkest" philosopher then?
A person who is cruel to animals definitely cannot be a good person, but someone who is kind to animals isn't necessarily good. Just look at Hitler.
@@Elite0301YT Calling him the darkest is 100% correct. His overall worldview was that life was a meaningless hellhole, the only real joys were reprieves from more pain, and it would be better if it didnt exist at all
"people are gonaa put my name in quotes which I don't even know I quoted."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"I didn't quote that one either"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
@@abhikpandey3142 "Wtf brooo???"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"please stop using his name"
- Arthur Schopenhauer
“All that glitters is gold, only shooting stars break the mold” -Arthur Schopenhauer
lmfao underrated
lol lmao xd tw LOL LMAO XD TW
Arthur Schopenhauer wakes up and gets up early and takes a bath, but no breakfast.
He drinks a strong cup of coffee
And then reads and writes until 1133.
He plays das flute for 33 minutes
And then he goes out for lunch.
Returning to his room,
He reads until 4
And then for out for 2 hours walk-
Regardless of das weather.
He would-
And nothing would stop him.
After dinner,
He goes to das theaters or libraries.
Returning to his room,
He sleeps early because
Life is a loan from death
With sleep as daily interest.
Så flink vil eg øu ver...
Where did this come from?
@Ranjit Tyagi He lived like that for real. He even bathed and had his coffee in the morning of the 21st September 1860, the day he died.
this feels like my life :P
The only part that was a little fun would be the theater. And that's if the theater wasn't about pessimism.
"Anything between the quotes can be justified" - Arthur Trollhauer
"I like big butts, and I cannot tell a lie." - George Washington
"Anything between the qoutes can be justified."
-Lanz Ritual
@@medexamtoolscomlmao 😂
I like my quotes young and tight.
"He spend the next decade philosophising"
Having rich parents must be nice
Most philosophers were bored trust fund babies with nothing better to do.
Much like most "professional" instagram photographers today.
@@hisholiness4537 this is the most superficial and stupid thing I've read in a while
@@francescocannizzaro746 just like Instagram "influencers"......
@@lewasil he doesn't know what he's talking about
@@hisholiness4537 Ah yes , because Instagram models/photographers = the best minds the world has produced in philosophy which even many men of science follow
I was moved to tears while listening to this. It is rare in life to hear thoughts and feelings you struggle to define put so simply. It makes you feel like you're being understood by another.
I’ve been there with you Michael. It’s called existential angst. One must wonder, where does love fit in all of this philosophizing? Sure there is suffering, but how much of it can be helped by humanity through love of your fellow human being.
@@jaimemoreno4315 love is placing your happiness in another person, we cannot love anyone else before we love ourselves. But to love ourself is a will. A "want". An "acceptance". The only acceptance one must take into account is that we are born and we die. That is the only certainty. The only thing we must accept, lessen the suffering caused by it - but do not be happy. Because to be happy is to constantly pursue the happiness. At the same time, do not be sad - because ti be sad is to 0ursue more sadness.
Do not be content- with anything other than death, because to be content is to escape from want; which in itself is striving towards avoiding suffering.
Do not strive, just be. Do not "do" being, just "be" being.
@@jaimemoreno4315 in other words: it is more than enough to just be.
@@illeatthat is love really placing my happiness in another person? If so, shouldn’t I feel happy each time I express love to another person? I don’t think that’s the case. Some expressions of love result in pain or suffering like a father or mother rescuing their children from a burning building. You might be focused on romantic love. I think love is much too profound to be simplified to reciprocal model of the exchange of love for happiness. To truly act through love is to be without the expectation of anything in return including happiness. There are plenty of people in this world who express love but don’t love themselves. These people often have the most love to give. So I don’t believe it’s necessary to love yourself so you may love another. However, I also don’t agree you should love yourself over loving others; I think you should do both. Why someone would argue for one over the other makes no sense to me.
Yes, let’s all accept we are born then we die but in between there is “doing.” Being born we have no control over but dying and the “doing” we have some choice. So in your “doing” if you choose to “just be” and believe “just being” and loving yourself alone is “enough” then you’ve decided there is no work to do, there is no growth to be had, so it would really make no difference if one were to commit suicide. Isn’t that the likely outcome of such thinking? Why drag out life with all its suffering only to “just be?” Of course, if you said no, life must continue or I must endure life despite suffering then you’re revealing a hidden assumption about the “doing” we humans do. But what is that hidden assumption? That could mean there is some sort of work to be done, there is growth to be had, it’s not sufficient to “just be.” So, you can “be” more by “doing” more and not just for yourself but for all living things.
@@jaimemoreno4315 watch the video again
"It's better to be a smart fella than a fart smella"
-Arthur Schopenhauer
rofl
Underrated comment
This one hit me right in the feels..
Mind blown
WTF
Great video + the sponsor advisement at the end was very clever!
I enjoyed it all, thank you 🖤
Schopenhauer is so good that even if you reject his central idea-that the Will is the thing-in-itself-you can still appreciate so many of his descriptions of the phenomenal world for being unique and ahead of his time. Like the role of sex in psychology, a rejection of free will, ethical monism, the value of art, etc. Plus he had the rare gift of being a German metaphysician who was actually readable. I feel like I didn’t really understand Kant until I read Schopenhauer.
yes .. his stuff is just so beautiful to read ... imagine his translators .. now imagine Hegel's ... the contrast is cringeworthy
Wasn't him polish? I remember he was born in Danzica
@@francescocannizzaro746 He was born in Danzig, yes. The city was ethnically almost entirely German until 1945, though. But he might have had some Polish blood in him.
I for one pretty much doubt that the Will is the thing-in-itself, but his pessimism is still 100% valid, and many of his other ideas too.
@@dannyslammy4379 yeah "on women", such beautiful misogyny...
"I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end it doesn't even matter"
~Anne frank
OK, now that is epic
Anne Frank? 🤔 I think you are confused dear sir
@@danielwallett6751 Anne Frank, Member of Linkin park. I dont think he is
Y’all wild 😂
@@danielwallett6751 peace be with you
Life sucks, just like TH-cam. But once in a while this algorithm gives you a gem.
Arthur S
Schopenhauer's quote about boredom really got to me in the end, I learned about this back when i was still struggling, thinking well, if i get to the end of this, boredom is certainly better than where i am right now mentally. But nope, i reached the end, got everything i wanted, and now, im bored, bored of life, wanting more, maybe searching for pain, but just wanting something to experience.
@foundlostLife certainly has no meaning. And endless loop of just active creatures, doing something or the other, suffering, being happy but temporarily, giving birth to new ones and then dying. And it continues.
@@b-6870 a nice description of samsara as described in dhamma, but there can be a purpose within that
Stop taking pictures and start to create. Don't allow proxies between you and the world.
“ *Yaaaaaaawnn...* ”
-Arthur Schopenhauer, probably staying up late.
"OooHhoh" - Arthur Schopenhauer prolly takin a nice shit
@@WoundedWabbajackand here you are shitting with your mouth and it's not nice at all
I always think that if you are rational enough, you can't be optimistic.
I don't think it is a matter of being rational. One of the most elaborate, rational, revolutionary philosophies of all time, Kant's one, relies on the principle that we are the subject of knowledge and his work, despite being cautions, is extremely optimistic if you know before him there was the absolute scepticism of David Hume.
@@clorulo Thanks. I'll look to him.
@@clorulo Well the funny thing was that a lot of Kant's work has optimistic assumptions. He said that there is no way to prove a god but that its better to assume the existence of one just because it is better. I feel like optimism kind of needs assumptions.
rationality is a very narrow window to observe the world from, in my experience the excess of it disagrees with creativity and the sense of wonder
If you threw the dessert with the encore it would be insanity. And we keep asking what's your point.
“They say it don’t be like it is, but it do.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
This line of thinking is where my chemistry degree led me. I suppose it's all just perspective but the forces of entropy naturally tending towards chaos in all things really shook me into a new reality.
thanks for the video, nice to see
"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy"
This reminds me of a quote that goes "Sometimes its better to be alone nobody can hurt you"
But without pain you can no longer grow emotionally. To know is to be set in the believe that the guidelines of reality are cemented in a form of concreteness. When you are the one with the power of belief , which is far more powerful than knowing. You can manifest what it is you want to see and be via action and will power. 47 ;)
Hedgehog's Dilemma
@@botas5254 lol!
We're no strangers to loooove, You know the rules and so do I.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
my fave comment
Fuck sake i got rickrolled by Schopenhauer
Edit: I think this was the first time anyone ever wrote this sentence
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@@tinycockjock1967 congratulations you've made a new guineas world record
@@tinycockjock1967 Its a very weird sentence truly
Strangely, when I am down, reading Schop's quotes is grounding and calming.
My favorite philosopher.
I was reading wisdom of life, when something really bad happened in my life and I went to a long depression.
It was such an unusual feeling: being so sad and finding such genius in the melancholic way Schopenhauer described life (which is completely true).
I don’t recommend anyone read Schopenhauer because it’s saddening, but I’m grateful I found him.
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you need to watch Prison School, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Death Note, Code Geass, Steins Gate, and one of the goats of fiction Hunter X Hunter
@@huskiehuskerson5300actually you need to do the exact opposite of what this m*********** just told you to do.
@@cuntdracula1I like some of those shows, but yeah, I agree.
@@cuntdracula1 damn
@cuntdracula1 chill
"I don't like sand. It's coarse, and it's rough, and it's irritating, and it gets everywhere."
-Arthur Schopenhauer
I like the sea and water, because I can wash the sand that gets everywhere. In this world since I cannot control the sand (irritation, etc) coming towards me I can still wash it off
Anakin Skywalker?
@@marioneevefontanilla7270 Arthus skywaker
Life is a relentless battle against chaos and despair.
"A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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@@victorruiz7862 Schopenhauer is commenting on the illusory nature of free will.
As human beings capable of rational thought and self-reflection, we imagine ourselves to have "free will," which makes us distinct from inanimate objects and animals. We believe we are masters of our own destinies, because we can choose to conform our actions to our desires (we can "do what we want").
(I took it from a forum)
@@kiskit631 thx, that relly helped 😏😏
@@victorruiz7862 People can do what they want, but they can't choose what they want. Our desires are determined by many different influential factors.
Thats sum deep ish but its very true
"It really do be like dat sometimes" -Arthur Schwarzenegger
lmao
it is all the time
“More plates, more dates”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
"Hi welcome to chili's"-Arthur soapintheshower
SOAPINTHESHOWERRRRR PLS I'M DYINGG
Is chili's in jail?
Lmao, Ardadar wins all the internet points from me!
Oh fuck im dead LMMFAO
Lmao
There is no amount of study in the world as elevating as that of the upanishads. It was the solace of my life and it will be the solace of my death.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
that is so fascinating
Two things… I loved this video. And, the commercial for Blinkist at the end was so extraordinary, I signed up for it. Thank you.
“It’s like a struggle sometimes it makes me wonder how i keep from going under”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Yeah that's when he was close to the edge.
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I've been binge listening to this channel at work since I stumbled upon it. By far the best content I've come across in a long time keep up the great work.
1:38 - still holds true today!
Great video!
Arthur Shopenhauer has copied all his ideas from UPANISHADS , sacred texts of India and it has nothing to do with Euroepan or western original creations ! PLEASE do your research correctly. I have written a book in french about this "intellectual thefts of the west" alongside the natural ressources..shame on those who try to hide the truth .
@@chanakyagan What a paltry and sophistic attempt to discredit the entirety of Schopenhauer's genius. Even if every single idea he had produced was fully derived from preexisting work (which many aren't in reality), would he not be a great conduit of these profound teachings, in that he is inspiring their recognition in many more people?
@@someguy9597 not much a "genius" when his whole philosophy is copied ain't it?
Plus, how hard is to realize less expectation mean less disappointment or life is pain and suffering?
I bet even people in middle age and those poor bastard can figure that out since they grow up in pain,
unlike some rich kid who grow up with luxury,
got readily check by the world, proceed to try find his childhood happiness back,
realize something those poor bastard knew when they were kids, than have the audacity to call it a philosophy, when it's just everyone's life experience,
perhaps his popularity comes from people who also live in luxury as a kid and try to find its childhood happiness when grow up,
but instead of realising that's just life, they found this guy to tell them there experience is something philosophical,
make them feels like some kind of big shot philosopher, turn them into hipster.
This guy is literally a 19-century hipster.
@@老美-d3t k
@@老美-d3t you renarded
“I used to do drugs. I still do but I used to, too.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
you can pretty sum it up by saying we arent the same person, yes our physical bodys are the same, but we are in a constant metapmorphisis of the human body and spirit. How i was 2 years ago isnt even remotley close the to the person i am now, my values and beliefs have changed through my experiences and that is what it comes down to. So if i did do drug in the past, thats fine, but i still do them anyways, thats dosent affect the core of my beliefs rather it enhances the expiernces to make it less gloomy, if we are looking at it form Schopenhauers point of view. overcome desires and minimize pain.
@@Versac3e "An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs"
-Arthur Schopenhauer
“I Tried Walking Into Target But I Missed”
"I haven't slept for ten days because that would be too long."
Hedberg
"No matter how much you shake and dance, the last two drops stay in your pants"
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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HAHAHAHAHAHAAA
"A true saiyan sprinkles when he tinkles" - Vegeta
lol he rlly said that？？
His lectures must have been epic with that orchestra playing, setting the dark tones of his ideas.
LMAO
I always think about this stuff ever since I was a kid
Schopenhauer's view of existence constantly moving for the sake of everything is something similar to what I think of and it can be really inspiring sometimes
The truth is pretty sad and negative but that just gives you reason not to worry
Pain and suffering is something that can never be removed from existence unless there wasn't any life and good, then that would just be a universe with no life, a void
It's a scary thought to realize but it just makes your living important, it would be irresponsible to not try and it's not like the Will will be waiting for you
This kind of perspective can make you very humble but pretty pessimistic, good though to be down to earth
That for some reason was oddly comforting. Like life, will be life. I listen to the song "My Song" and often think of the singer as the universe or God or something. It makes me think we're all kind of eternal or something.
He (Schopenhauer) took everything he ever knew from the Vedic's, Mahabharata, the teachings of Shiva etc...All of these "genius scientists, physicists, and academics knew a small amount of Sanskrit. Reference the movie Oppenheimer. They mention it real quick when someone asks Opie where he is getting these ideas, he said the Vedic's and that he is learning Sanskrit. Sanskrit can and never will be solved in totality because it needs to be sang or sung in a dialect that no longer exists. All Hebrew geniuses stole from India. They are great at copying others.
Why do you disagree with Schopenhauer's conclusion, if you recapitulate his view of the Will to Life?
@@lilemont9302 well his plagiarism is legendary
@@markthekingmarktheking5217 Not only is western philosophy different in method and overall content from the Hindu classics, Schopenhauer doesn't even deny that he takes from these works.
Thank you for introducing me to this important philosopher. I find his views more thought-provoking than dark.
You might want to check out "on women" before giving him too much praise
Read his thoughts on women LOL all true
@@Biscuit9891 It seems to be a common, yet tragic, characteristic of men to believe that they understand women better than we understand ourselves.
@@ginalibrizzi5204 third party perspectives are often a lot more accurate tho.
@ginalibrizzi5204 yes I'm a man yet I hate it when men thinks women are inferior to them
I needed to see this... I was going through yet another existential crisis mentally... Lots of feelings of fear discontent... Loss...
This clarifies my thoughts well
"You don't have to be great to start but you have to start to be great."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
This is quite optimistic 👀
@@mimieko15 it's no even his quote.
"Keep itself going, for the sake of keep itself going." Hit hard to the core
Props to the editor this is work of art
Schopenhauer strikes you as a nutcase when you first encounter him--a depressive doomsayer who gave up on happiness. Then as you grow older, you find life's travails and ironies leading you to many of the insights he wrote so masterfully.
I love the philosophy of pessimism once you start following it your expectations become so less that you hardly bother when anything doesn't go your way Buddha also said the same thing Lust/desire is the cause of all sorrows
I'm not sure Buddha ever considered a scenario like someone born without limbs.
But then wanting to eliminate desire is just another desire ..
@@wantanamera yes ... this is the conundrum .. choose the middle way
good presentation , and a very clever AD . i actually sat thru the entire ad . cheers
I have a lot to thank him for, then. Many of my own artistic endeavours are heavily tied in with my philosophies... I never knew a world where they weren't entwined.
"everybody thinks they can quote me now"
-AS
"Today is worse, day by day it will get worse until, the worst of all arives."
But there is no way to measure whether the oncoming days will be worse or better so only way to find is to tread forward
Being happy is a state that doesn't last but for good measure for if it did then it wouldn't be that special.
@The Rockall Times true . But maybe i might pass away before i get old .its just better to mourn after the ill fate has reached u rather than mourn before and after it has encompassed ur life. Maybe the old life might be the most beautiful part of my life, there are just too many variables to know exactly what will be
Or the best arrives , eternal relief. Depends on how u look at it i thinks
"Stop misquoting me."
~Arthur Schopenhauer
"The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy."
its exactly what i live by for probably over 15 years now. Never expect good results so you will never be disappointed.
Does it work out?
@@theonel9884 it won't disappoint, but you won't find a fulfilling existence, truth be told, taking chances at a greater life can bring both happiness or absolute pain, it is all up to you, if you wish to attempt any of those I wish you luck
@@theonel9884 yes.
For example, if you have a crush you want to ask out. Dnt daydream of the possibilities and dnt get your hopes high up, because those daydream and hopeful possibilities can end up harming you more than it should be.
@@sebastiantafoya3609 spot on mate
it's not about the results being good or bad, it's about the delusion that the expectation underlies.
He might very well be the only philosopher whose work remains consistently true to me.
my absolute favorite channel on youtube. Thank you for always expanding my mind and making me feel less alone
"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Aurthur Schopenhauer
Lul
*Tom Waits
lol
i see you are man of the culture
Tf is that?
"If dog bark, dog uncooked"
- Arthur Schopenhauer.
fake, this is an ancient Chinese proverb
Lincoln 1888
@Cactus Slunk He bark too much, so we go fo wok.
so funny
LOL
'The Will' just goes on without a reason and just for the sake of existing and continuing.... that kinda defies the logic of ikigai
"He who has smelt it has most certainly dealt it, while he who denied it unquestionably supplied it. Any man who would toot it, has no right to refute it." - Arthur Schopenhauer
The only solutions are to remain quiet while suffering, or make a direct and confrontational accusation to the perpetrator you are absolutely certain is the source. Do not get caught up in the gray, only black and white exist.
Are you talking about farts?
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"Life is a gas" - Arthur Schopenhauer
God is a gas
"Life unwinds like a cheap sweater, but since I gave up hope I feel a lot better." - Steve Taylor
Nice upload. I really appreciate your channel and recommend it to others as well. I am older and I don't get out much at all, but when I do I always carry a book with me and when I am waiting for whatever it is I am doing/waiting on, I read. I get the strangest glances from people. LOL I don't really like reading from a monitor/screen. Nothing (to me) can replace an actual book.
I like the fact that both Arthur Schopenhauer and Fredrick Nietzsche touch upon aspects of yogic hinduism, and Schopenhauer saying going against the will, which could said as primal instinct of life, leads to liberation, which is what yogic hinduism is about, a path inwards, which is kinda terrifying, as many siddhar and yogic Philosophers, also despise traditional temple worship which is also an instinct of man to surrender to a greater power, whom we consider God.
Unlike most philosophers his writings are clear and his writing style is effortless. Studies in pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer is a supremely underrated short book. Give it a chance. Don't take chapter 7 personally.
Why? is that chapter about his thoughts on women🙄
@@f.m.m6706 Yes, he goes hard on women.
@@PowerMatrixAnime bit of a downer lol, I’ll try read it with an open mind and consider his era/context.
@@zuthula3847 based and redpilled