Sublime

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,–the less, indeed, other people can be to him.

Chacun doit donc être et fournir à soi-même ce qu’il y a de meilleur et de plus important. Plus il en sera ainsi, plus, par suite, l’individu trouvera en lui-même les sources de ses plaisirs, et plus il sera heureux. C’est donc avec raison qu’Aristote a dit : η ευδαμονια των αυταρχων εστι (Mor. à Eud., VII, 2) (Le bonheur appartient à ceux qui se s

the negativity of well-being and happiness, in antithesis to the positivity of pain.

They pique themselves upon knowing about everything--stones, plants, battles, experiments, and all the books in existence. It never occurs to them that information is only a means of insight, and in itself of little or no value; that it is his way of thinking that makes a man a philosopher.

“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , “The World as Will and Representation”

Le principal est toujours ce qu’un homme est, par conséquent ce qu’il possède en lui-même ; car son individualité l’accompagne en tout temps et en tout lieu et teinte de sa nuance tous les événements de sa vie.

But the more of personal worth a man has, the less pleasure he will take in these conventional arrangements; and he will try to withdraw from the sphere in which they apply. The reason why these arrangements exist at all, is simply that in this world of ours misery and need are the chief features: therefore it is everywhere the essential and paramo

Discontent springs from a constant endeavor to increase the amount of our claims, when we are powerless to increase the amount which will satisfy them.

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