Studies in Pessimism: The Essays AudioBook

Studies in Pessimism: The Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer



But all this contributes to increase the measures of suffering in human life out of all proportion to its pleasures; and the pains of life are made much worse for man by the fact that death is something very real to him. The brute flies from death instinctively without really knowing what it is, and therefore without ever contemplating it in the way natural to a man, who h...more

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Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

The Art of Controversy AudioBook

The Art of Controversy: The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer



Speech and the communication of thought, which, in their mutual relations, are always attended by a slight impulse on the part of the will, are almost a physical necessity. Sometimes, however, the lower animals entertain me much more than the average man. For, in the first place, what can such a man say? It is only conceptions, that is, the driest of ideas, that can be com...more

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The Art of Controversy