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
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Interpretation
Life is meant to be challenged and conquered rather than merely enjoyed.
Arthur Schopenhauer suggests that the purpose of life is not simply to seek enjoyment, but rather to face and overcome the challenges that come our way. This perspective emphasizes resilience and the importance of struggle, implying that personal growth and fulfillment stem from navigating difficulties instead of pursuing mere pleasure.
In practice
In a motivational speech about resilience in the face of adversity.
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.
Synchronistic events constitute moments in which a 'cosmic' or 'greater' meaning becomes gradually conscious in an individual; generally it is a shaking experience.
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear.
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