Sermonette I - Schopenhauer
A reading taken from the works of Arthur Schopenhauer (The link is to his Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry):
everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: ‘Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse – until at last the worst of all arrives.’
– Arthur Schopenhauer.
On the Suffering of the World
(London: Penguin, 2004), p. 11.
On the Suffering of the World
(London: Penguin, 2004), p. 11.
[The Sermonette will appear weekly - betwix Friday and Sunday, as time allows - and will be extracted from the copious philosophical cannon, with Schopenhauer being the primary source.]
posted by MH at 9:47 am
2 Comments:
Mr. Bernstein (Citizen Kane):
"Just old age, Mr. Thompson. It's the only disease that you don't look forward to being cured of."
Somepeople are not happy unless they have something to complain about. Schopenhauer was definetly one of those people.
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