🍃 “𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙞𝙨 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙡, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙞𝙩.”

The book contains various essays written by Schopenhauer on different topics. I don't know what to say, while i really don't agree with most of his philosophy in this book, i can't judge him on basis of just one book. I'll definitely be reading more of Schopenhauer to understand his work in a better way and then form an opinion. But one thing for sure: i am liking him better than Nietzsche.

𝑸𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔:

▪️“If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then
our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world: for
it is absurd to suppose that the endless affliction of which the world
is everywhere full, and which arises out of the need and distress
pertaining essentially to life, should be purposeless and purely
accidental.”

I do agree with that life is not meant to be full of pleasure, suffering is an important part of our life and in the end life is meaningless but i do think that it has a purpose and it's not accidentall. Yeah i am a believer so i do believe God created us for a reason.


▪️“The vanity of existence is revealed in the whole form existence
assumes: in the in infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the
Infiniteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole
form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of
all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire
without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which
life consists.”

▪️“Time and that perishability of all things existing in time
that time itself brings about is simply the form under which the will
to live, which as thing in itself is imperishable, reveals to itself the
vanity of its striving.”

▪️“Time is that by virtue of which everything
becomes nothingness in our hands and loses all real value.”

▪️“Every moment of our life belongs to the present only for a
moment; then it belongs for ever to the past.”

▪️“Because everything in nature is at once appearance and thing in itself,
or natura naturata and natura naturans, it is consequently susceptible
of a twofold explanation, a physical and a metaphysical”

This one was interesting and from the essay: “On the Antithesis of Thing in Itself and Appearance”.

Schopenhauer argues on nature of Will and intellect, he believes intellect is based on physical form while is will is metaphysical but then will is what drives the intellect. And in a intellect serves the will. And when the intellect exceeds it becomes genius:
“when this superfluity becomes considerable it is called genius”

Then we have his essay “on women”, where he is just being super weird tbh, while i agree with some stuff like how women are obviously weaker than men in terms of our physiology and stuff but then there were certain lines which i couldn't just agree with it. 

▪️“They are
sexus sequior,* the inferior second sex in every respect: one should be
indulgent towards their weaknesses, but to pay them honour is
ridiculous beyond measure and demeans us even in their eyes.”

▪️“for woman is by no means fitted to be the object of
our veneration, to hold her head higher than the man or to enjoy
equal rights with him.”

▪️“The
European lady is a creature which ought not to exist at all: what
there ought to be is housewives and girls who hope to become
housewives and who are therefore educated, not in arrogant
haughtiness, but in domesticity and submissiveness”

But nvm there was this was one passage om sex and pregnancy which i found very amazing:

▪️“It is this which explains the notable fact that every woman, while
she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of
generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of
shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy
is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus:
thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the a air, while
pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and
innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”


Another essay was on reading and writing:

▪️“Truth is fairest naked, and the simpler its expression the
profounder its influence.”

▪️“The greatest works of the
greatest men all belong to a time when they had to write them for
nothing or for very small payment: so that here too the Spanish
proverb holds good: Honra y provecho no caben en un saco.(Honour and money don't belong in same purse)”.

▪️“A precondition for reading good books
is not reading bad ones: for life is short.”



Hmmm. Was a nice reading nevertheless. Will probably re-read it.