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Updated: June 13, 2025
The man who can vivisect an emotion, and lay bare a heart-beat in print, knows a subtle joy. The misery that can explain itself is not all misery. Complete misery is dumb; and pain that is all pain is quickly transformed into insensibility. Schopenhauer's life was quite as happy as that of many men who persistently depress us by requesting us to "cheer up."
For the detailed criticism of unconscious cerebration, see Boris Sidis, The Psychology of Suggestion: A research into the subconscious nature of Man and Society, New York, Appletons, 1898, pp. 121-127. For Froschammer, Fancy is the original principle of things. In his philosophical theory it plays the same part as Hegel's Idea, Schopenhauer's Will, Hartmann's Unconscious, etc.
While perusing such passages, the reader will grasp the full meaning of Schopenhauer's solemn utterance to the effect that, where optimism is not merely the idle prattle of those beneath whose flat brows words and only words are stored, it seemed to him not merely an absurd but a vicious attitude of mind, and one full of scornful irony towards the indescribable sufferings of humanity.
Bryan on suffrage Examples of legislation to protect women passed recently The tendency is to complete equality of the sexes Suffrage in England A delayed reform in divorce Women's rights on the Continent Especially in Germany Schopenhauer's views of women Further remarks on the philosophy of suffrage "Woman's sphere" Ultimate results of women entering all businesses and professions Feminism The home is not necessarily every woman's sphere and neither is motherhood nor is it her congenital duty to make herself attractive to men Unreasonableness of gratuitous advice to women and none to men What we don't know Fallacy of the argument that the fall of the Roman Empire was due to the liberty given to woman Official organs of various suffrage societies
Even while formulating concepts of art, the author must reiterate Schopenhauer's dictum that the concept is unfruitful in art. The mathematical analysis of spatial beauty is an interesting study, and a useful one to the artist; but it can never take the place of the creative faculty, it can only supplement, restrain, direct it.
How a general asceticism on our part will rob the one universal Will, revealed in the mineral, vegetable and animal worlds, of its nature, and still its strivings, the great pessimist does not indicate. At this point, von Hartmann, who may fairly be called Schopenhauer's pupil, takes up the tale.
Men will not attain to Nirvana through quiet and indifference, but through strenuous labor, not by withdrawing into their 'ego, but by going outside it. The true Nirvana of the pandits is the exact opposite of your Schopenhauer's Nirvana." "But how can this conception of the seer's Nirvana coincide with their inactivity and renunciation of the world?" "People misunderstand the fakir's belief.
The bits of Schopenhauer's broken brickbats embedded in the libretto of Tristan serve their turn, though a finer and more poetical way of saying the same things might have been found.
It is not my purpose, nor would it be possible within the limits of a prefatory note, to attempt an account of Schopenhauer's philosophy, to indicate its sources, or to suggest or rebut the objections which may be taken to it. But the essays here presented need a word of explanation.
It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep. Here Zarathustra gives names to the intellect and the instincts; he calls the one "the little sagacity" and the latter "the big sagacity." Schopenhauer's teaching concerning the intellect is fully endorsed here.
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