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'The Wisdom of Life' is a short philosophical essay by the Nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). In this last published work, Arthur breaks down happiness into three parts and explores the nature of human happiness, and tries to understand... Read Full Overview

A leading German metaphysician of the 19th century, Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) exerted an influence far beyond the hermetic world of philosophy, with adherents ranging from Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche to Leo Tolstoy and Thomas Mann. Among Schopenhauer's chief... Read Full Overview

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest." An ardent expounder for self-disciple... Read Full Overview

Los Aforismos sobre la sabidur a de la vida (1851) son un compendio de filosof a pr ctica en el que Schopenhauer recoge doctrinas, recomendaciones y advertencias para desenvolverse mejor en la vida y evitar sus trampas y contrariedades, un arte de prudencia, en suma, que se puede... Read Full Overview

In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology, for it teaches us how... Read Full Overview

'The Wisdom of Life' is a short philosophical essay by the Nineteenth-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). In this last published work, Arthur breaks down happiness into three parts and explores the nature of human happiness, and tries to understand... Read Full Overview

Arthur Schopenhauer war ein deutscher Philosoph, Autor und Hochschullehrer. Schopenhauer entwarf eine Lehre, die gleicherma en Erkenntnistheorie, Metaphysik, sthetik und Ethik umfasst. Er sah sich selbst als Sch ler und Vollender Immanuel Kants, dessen Philosophie er als Vorbereitung... Read Full Overview

"The Essays on the Wisdom of Life" from Arthur Schopenhauer. German philosopher (1788-1860).

circumstances to follow a sedentary occupation, some minute exquisite work of the hands, for example, or to engage in study and mental labor demanding quite other powers, and just those which he has not got,--compelled, that is, to leave unused the powers in which he is pre-eminently... Read Full Overview

"l'essentiel pour le bonheur de la vie, c'est ce que l'on a en soi-m me." En nous guidant sur les voies de la Sagesse, Schopenhauer nous montre le chemin du Bonheur.

Collected here are four short essays, Division of the Subject, Personality, or What a Man Is, Property, or What a Man Has, Position, or a Man's Place in the Estimation of Others, by the world renowned philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

In these pages I shall speak of The Wisdom of Life in the common meaning of the term, as the art, namely, of ordering our lives so as to obtain the greatest possible amount of pleasure and success; an art the theory of which may be called Eudaemonology, for it teaches us how... Read Full Overview