Schopenhauer: Limitation Makes for Happiness | Counsels & Maxims 6

"Our existence will glide on peacefully like a stream which no waves or whirlpools disturb."
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Section 6 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Limitation Makes for Happiness
1:37 Misery of Old Age
3:15 Intellectual Limits
4:20 Boredom
5:24 Idyllic Poetry
6:55 Life is Frigid
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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...

[@kay3741]

This is so useful, the lectures I attend are not this clear and concise

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Thanks! More coming in this series the next 2 weeks.

[@carlalv7717]

I came from a big family. So difficult, so painful to help/please everyone. I just simplified my concerns, and I am more tranquil and peaceful. I'm glad to hear that the master suggested that road.

[@roberthak3695]

Thank you for your time!

[@ChristopherAnadale]

My pleasure!

[@roberthak3695]

I am reading a book titled "A road to nowhere, the idea of progress and its critics". This might not be in your interests or specialty, but I personally would appreciate an exploration of those themes, even if it were only in relation to Schopenhauer.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

I'll check it out, the Amazon description looks interesting. I'll reply here again if I make plans to say something about it. Thanks for the tip.

[@oliviaalmonds2255]

You are so good and I love watching your videos❤️.. Would you mind making one about "the myth of mental illness"? Take my love

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Thanks. I'm not sure myth of mental illness is in my scope, but I will consider it. Glad you like the channel!

[@oliviaalmonds2255]

@@ChristopherAnadale thank you❤️

[@jarms40]

I do dig the beard.

[@ChristopherAnadale]

Hey thanks. It's about a month old, trying it out. My wife & kids like it.

[@jarms40]

@@ChristopherAnadale My line when folks ask me about my beard is that "only one person gets to vote on whether I keep it, and that person ain't me."

[@Richard-1776]

In my second half of life, I actually found peace. I really have. I thank Aristotle for that, and Schopenhauer to to a lesser extent ( his essays, not his philosophy). Both of them read my mind to me. I'm not implying I'm smart like them, but now I know, that what I know is true, and always has been, I just didn't know it then, now I do. And the things I don't know, at least I know how to go about possibly knowing, again a tip of the hat to Aristotle for that. Aristotle taught me to think, and and to flourish ( to the best of my abilities anyway), and what Schopenhauer gave me was a superiority complex ( god do I relate to him), which is better than what I had, which was the opposite. I'll never be like that again. I have almost no respect for anyone anymore, and consider most people to be suicidally stupid, because they are, and that goes for the smart ones, as well as the idiots. I feel like I'm living in a Twilight Zone episode they're because they're so senseless and inverted. In spite of the insanity, I'll die with a smile on my face after all. I never thought I'd say that.
Well, maybe not…Not if these hollow-headed, zombie liberals continue work their magic on society, i.e., If they continue to drift down the stream of a dream ( more accurately a nightmare, and a tributary of the river Styx) and support those that wave the true wands of magic, black magic ( figuratively speaking), I may end up eating those words, as I'm tortured to death in some American Gulag. I can see that happening. But I won't worry about it. I'll be dead before that hits. Anyway, philosophy can be good and improve your life, but only the philosophy of Aristotle. After him, it seems to me, to have all gone down hill as far as philosophy.