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Arthur schopenhauer was right and a chad.
https://youtu.be/c2idjhewTMI?si=sc0obHx8UHu6bOSc

>>22400496
*ahem*

>>22383297
Yes

I kissed a girl bros! It was fun and she was cute. I wasn’t sure if I did a good job but she said I was cute. Am I, dare I say it, going to make it?

>>21740463
Because he was right about almost everything.
>"Der Wahrheit zu Theil ward, der nur ein kurzes Siegesfest beschieden ist, zwischen den beiden langen Zeiträumen, wo sie als paradox verdammt und als trivial geringgeschätzt wird." ("To truth only a brief celebration of victory is allowed between the two long periods during which it is condemned as paradoxical, or disparaged as trivial.")

- Arthur Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation)

>>21545841
Fuck off, both are mind and matter are Will.

>>21496912
Still wasn't wrong about women.

>>21491381
This.

>>21421520
1. Read Plato & Immanuel Kant before tackling Schopenhauer
2. Start with Parerga and Paralipomena: as this is a collection of essays that reflects Schopenhauer's thoughts as he was old and wise at the time he wrote it.
3. Read The World as Will and Representation: and enjoy his magnum opus
4. Ignore the incel anons on here and skip Nietzsche, for was the actual incel and not Schopenhauer

>>21357384
>And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in which, therefore, every ravenous beast is the living grave of thousands of others, and its self-maintenance is a chain of painful deaths; and in which the capacity for feeling pain increases with knowledge, and therefore reaches its highest degree in man, a degree which is the higher the more intelligent the man is; to this world it has been sought to apply the system of optimism, and demonstrate to us that it is the best of all possible worlds. The absurdity is glaring.

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1

>>21232505
I love the fact that rebbitors have never heard of him, but have only heard of Nietzsche. The less faggot rebbitors that know philosophers & philosophy and stick to Atheism and Rick and Morty, the better.
I don't need people to know how comfy Schopenhauer's works are. People don't deserve him.

yes, life sucks

>>21010048
One of the very few philosophers I almost completely agree with. He's literally right about almost everything, same as the Buddhists are. He also inspired me to learn some Sanskrit.

Hegel is a sophist.

>>20962642
Incredibly based.

>Just as a stream runs unrestrainedly as long as it encounters no obstacles, so in human nature, as in animal nature, life runs unconsciously and carelessly when something opposes its will. If attention is aroused, it is because the will was not free and some shock has occurred.

>Everything that stands in front of our will, everything that opposes or resists it, that is, everything that is unpleasant and painful, we feel it very keenly and continuously.
>We do not pay attention to the general health of our body, but we notice the slight point where our shoes hurt us; we do not appreciate the prosperous whole of our business, and we only think of an insignificant trifle that displeases us. - Well-being and happiness are therefore negative, only pain is positive.

>I know of nothing more absurd than the majority of metaphysical systems, which explain evil as a negative thing; on the contrary, only evil is positive, since it makes itself felt... Goodness, happiness, satisfaction are negative, because they do nothing but suppress a desire and end a displeasure.

>Against every satisfied desire there are ten that are not

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I fucking hate Hegelians so much, sophism and nothing else.

>hegel