Sermonette VI – Schopenhauer

A reading taken from the works of Arthur Schopenhauer:

The most effective consolation in every misfortune and every affliction is to observe others who are more unfortunate than we: and everyone can do this.

– Arthur Schopenhauer.
On the Suffering of the World
(London: Penguin, 2004), p. 4.

A comment by Burkard Augustine Hase on Schopenhauer, recorded by Helen Garner:

“Is it suspicion? Do you know Schopenhauer? He was a Philosoph, ja? You know what is a Philosoph? Someone who thinks a lot about what happens. You don’t find the answer with thinking. It’s all imagination.”

– Helen Garner.
‘Man With The Pearl-White Cord’
in The Monthly December – January 2006, p. 20.

[It has been quiet here lately, it is simply that time of year.]