We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
Arthur SchopenhauerRead
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.
Interpretation
Victory is often short-lived and quickly overshadowed by skepticism and criticism.
Arthur Schopenhauer's quote reflects on the transient nature of victory, suggesting that moments of success are fleeting and usually met with a mix of skepticism and dismissal. Between the brief celebrations of victory, there exists a longer duration where such achievements are either deemed paradoxical or trivial, highlighting the complex relationship humans have with success and its recognition.
In practice
In a motivational speech about handling success and setbacks.
We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.
We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the number of their errors. Whoever attaches a lot of value to the opinions of others pays them too much honor.
Nobody ever fails in Yoga....It is slow in the beginning and rapid in the end. _x000D_ When one is fully matured, realization is explosive.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.
We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
Americans do not want to think that there is an alternative to what we have. Therefore, as soon as you say 'fascism' or whatever it might be, then the American response is to say 'no' because we lack the categories that allow us to think outside of the box that we are no longer in.
There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
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