Schopenhauer: Narrow Foundation | Counsels & Maxims 2-3

"Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life upon a broad foundation"
Schopenhauer playlist: • Schopenhauer's Counsel...
Sections 2-3 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 First World Problems
1:21 Narrow Foundation
3:10 Folly of Preparing
6:19 Optical Illusion
7:07 We Find Something Else
8:25 Magic Flute
10:54 Embrace Fate
12:56 We Are All Alchemists
#Philosophy #Schopenhauer #Pessimism
Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
Thumbnail Image: 1815 Portrait, By Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl - Schopenhauer-Archiv der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

[@robdavies4294]

Just discovered your, "counsels and maxims" playlist, it's fab. I've ordered the book as a next step.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Glad you like it, I'm trying to add one each week.

[@georgenelson8917]

Schopenhauer, Epicurean philosophers helped me find that others have the same thoughts I and I am sure many others think about life . Thank you for your work bringing this to the public.

[@carlalv7717]

I am grateful and pleased with your channel. Thank you.

[@GS-lp2up]

Thank you for these! This one was great too.