Showing posts with label Arthur Schopenhauer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Schopenhauer. Show all posts

Monday, July 25, 2011

"The Schopenhauer Cure" by Irvin Yalom

Kindle edition and Paperback.
  • "Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind."
  • "he knew exactly what to do and how to spend his final year. He would live just the way he had lived the previous year - and the year before that and before that. (He loved being a therapist; he loved connecting to others and helping to bring something to life in them.)"
  •  "A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally."

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: The Wisdom of Life

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  • "a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away"
  • "The only thing that stands in our power to achieve, is to make the most advantageous use possible of the personal qualities we possess"
  • "Ordinary people think merely how they shall spend their time; a man of any talent tries to use it."
  • "the same external events or circumstances affect no two people alike; even with perfectly similar surroundings every one lives in a world of his own"
  •  "The world in which a man lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he looks at it, and so it proves different to different men; to one it is barren, dull, and superficial; to another rich, interesting, and full of meaning."
  • "every man is pent up within the limits of his own consciousness"
  • "the highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind"