Bespiegelingen Over Levenswijsheid by Arthur Schopenhauer
A collection of incisive essays offering practical and often pessimistic guidance on how to live well: it argues that happiness depends less on external circumstances than on how one shapes desires, cultivates inner resources like independence, taste and solitude, and manages relationships, ambition and disappointment; it emphasizes moderation of expectations, the value of aesthetic and intellectual life as refuge from suffering, and provides blunt observations on fame, wealth, marriage and sociality to help readers attain a more serene, self-directed existence.
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- 1851
- Nationality
- German
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- German
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- Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit
- Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
- Bespiegelingen over levenswijsheid
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