Arthur Schopenhauer says “Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” We hope that you enjoyed this video and for more videos to help you find success and happiness using ancient philosophical wisdom, don’t forget to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching.
@hpbestialtroublemaker4263 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about Camus?
@MediaTrainerPro3 жыл бұрын
Interesting, I never thought of Arthur Schopenhauer this way before. Subscribed!
@decipheringthematrix563 жыл бұрын
Loved it so much, I've seen it 4 times in a row. My most sincere gratitude.
@frankjspencejr3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed the video. But I’d like to comment on one aspect: @1:50 ff there is a discussion of free will. My favorite quote about free will is Schopenhauer’s “man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills.” This constitutes free will if by free will you only mean that you can do what you will. But the common sense notion of free will is being able to will what you will. While you can reflect on your limits and your desires, you can only do so if you have the will to reflect on your limits and desires. So while the compatibilist view makes free will technically possible, it only does so by using a definition that I do not think would satisfy most people‘s common sense notion of free will.
@missy92793 жыл бұрын
The uploader should've been more creative with the video thumbnail caption..not to attract more views but to avoid "reducing" Arthur's work to mere pessimism. He gave some really important points to reflect upon, which depending upon one's perspectives can, use it for Success too.
@Flowerqt183 жыл бұрын
My favorite philosopher of ALL time !!!!!!!!!
@greatness7683 жыл бұрын
I’m learning that being pessimistic serves the purpose of our lives already inherent in each one of us. Just let’s not make phony smiling illegal. Just smile and move on. 😉
@greatness7683 жыл бұрын
We can truly see truly.
@datonmasdoc40723 жыл бұрын
@Nad FAm I'm a nihilistic guy and i just purely reject society as a whole
@cinaannie73383 жыл бұрын
Not mine?! He's a bummer type of person! Lol! I am more of the Epicuris kind of person! 🤷
@drtobiasfunke112 жыл бұрын
My favorite german of all time…. Well second favorite.
@SombrasCervixBruiser3 жыл бұрын
People need to open their eyes and realize that there is nothing wrong with being pessimistic. I am and I'm going to stay that way
@TheScottishoats3 жыл бұрын
Yes, and believing that you will “stay that way” is indeed a very optimistic attitude.
@SombrasCervixBruiser3 жыл бұрын
@@TheScottishoats haha I see what you did there
@denisdenak3 жыл бұрын
There is a difference with philosophical pessimism and what people generally call a pessimist. If you're a philosophical pessimist, in a normal daily life it converts to a realist.
@zachvanslyke43418 ай бұрын
Agreed. I find that pessimism actually can make one more relaxed and able to laugh a little more through life; a pessimist isn’t necessarily a jerk or at least doesn’t have to be… contra is that there are lots of optimistic jerks for real 🙏
@shacktime6 ай бұрын
I’m a pragmatic realist.
@dlloydy53563 жыл бұрын
Schopenhauer really resonates with me, all very relatable, thank you
@saidh15663 жыл бұрын
Same with me.
@FutureMindset3 жыл бұрын
I always found that the idea of always looking at the bright side creates and attitude of not looking at our situations holistically. It's important to view every situation and circumstance wholly and that involves looking at both the positive and negative.
@MediaTrainerPro3 жыл бұрын
Arthur Schopenhauer is a genius! Usually, we try to do something to cope with negative things in our lives versus just eliminating that negative thing. Well done!
@javidanguliyev65333 жыл бұрын
Me watching this at 25 years old: My mom who does not know english and just see cartoons: He is still a baby
@decipheringthematrix563 жыл бұрын
LOL
@whalefin11733 жыл бұрын
Damn
@clockywork3 жыл бұрын
LOL
@saulsayago71713 жыл бұрын
I'm 55 and watched Richie Rich !!🤪
@piyushjadhav36673 жыл бұрын
There is nothing such as happiness it is just a temporary relief from pain
@ThatAnnoyingBird Жыл бұрын
That's... A rather depressing way to look at life.
@Ari-13-Ana3 жыл бұрын
I've never heard someone I agree more with... And it's an explanation of feelings I've had for as long as I can remember, it's amazing. DEFINITLY going to be studying this more.
@Mike-mc3sh3 жыл бұрын
Same! I have always been a pessimist and came to the same conclusions Schopenhauer did. Now that I discovered Schopenhauer today, I know I'm not crazy.
@FromTheNard3 жыл бұрын
agree - it’s a different way of looking at life and i didn’t know someone had written about it like this. i stopped at 6 minutes in just to look at the comments to see if anyone else felt the same way. i will be looking more in to schopenhauer & then look for a counter philosophy just to see which makes more sense to me. good to see that others also believe in some rational, realistic goals instead of the pollyanna ‘life is wonderful you can do anything’ smileyface smileyface rainbow unicorn shite. (i dont like emojis)
@sujaysannyamath6553 жыл бұрын
Why does pessimism sound so much more realistic than optimism?
@chongyu66653 жыл бұрын
I think so too.
@jekuson11563 жыл бұрын
Being optimistic often have no limits, but taking risks is actually a good thing too(in order to improve)
@sujaysannyamath6553 жыл бұрын
@@jekuson1156 I don't disagree on principle. But pessimism does seem more grounded in reality than the 'can do anything ' kind of optimism that popular media endorses.
@jekuson11563 жыл бұрын
@@sujaysannyamath655 I agree btw just sharing my thoughts, both are great but I think these types of mindset are situational.
@Diana-gt1rv3 жыл бұрын
I agree that pessimism is more realistic, but nevertheless I prefer being an optimist. It’s so true that we learn and grow from difficult times in life. Never give up hope!
@skywalkershaun12 жыл бұрын
I guess I am just naturally a pessimist. It drives my boss crazy when I tell him that I am aware of my limitations, and I embrace them. He seems to think that magically my limitations will increase with good thoughts.
@MosesRabuka3 жыл бұрын
“Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?”~ Arthur Schopenhauer
@ReynaSingh3 жыл бұрын
This world is chaos, and we can only hope to find harmony within it
@pavithra7363 жыл бұрын
Very true..
@ronaldholliday22543 жыл бұрын
Controlled Folly Life is but a Dream within a Dream
@youtubehatesfreespeech25553 жыл бұрын
This is nonsensical....if world is chaos, this means by definition that balance is absent
@saulsayago71713 жыл бұрын
Theres is chaos for pésims, Theres is so much wisdom for positive persons...☹️😃
@unsinnkim36902 жыл бұрын
Wrong. Chaos would exist if everything could happen at any time and in any place, which is certainly not the case.
@Mike-mc3sh3 жыл бұрын
I have always been a pessimistic person. I always thought it's better to be pessimistic than optimistic. For some reason it bums people out especially at work they think I'm a negative person, but I'm not at all.
@sirclarkmarz3 жыл бұрын
Hope is what precedes disappointment . Of all the horrors to be unleashed from Pandora's box the one thing that could not be let out is hope . It is the most devastating and destructive thing that an individual or society could be inflicted with.
@gottod68952 жыл бұрын
@@sirclarkmarz Albert Camus ?
@sirclarkmarz2 жыл бұрын
@@gottod6895 Henry Miller among a great number of others
@TheDhammaHub3 жыл бұрын
Buddhism often receives the same criticism of Pessimis - no surprise that Schopenhauer praised the Buddha 😃
@dawnfm003 жыл бұрын
Buddha said there is a way out of suffering which is called Nirvana, I don't think that's pessimism.
@TheDhammaHub3 жыл бұрын
@@dawnfm00 That is true, but people still criticize that his teachings are suffering-centered all the time. The criticism doesn't mean it is true though ;D
@TheDhammaHub3 жыл бұрын
@ABHISHEK RAJEEV 19BEN002 Well, he repeated the first noble truth he discovered over and over again: Suffering exists, is everywhere and can hardly be avoided by conventional means
@rolloduke20513 жыл бұрын
I'm big fan of Arthur. When I was reading his works, his philosophical lessons comes into my dream. Sheer joy !
@mariah56873 жыл бұрын
Positive is good..never thinking negative is bad for our mind
@Spacecat3572 жыл бұрын
Appreciation of loved ones for their nature tilts appreciation towards parents and away from children since usually children outlive their parents.
@gottod68952 жыл бұрын
I want to emphasis on the notion that "Romantic love is build upon sexual instinct",which in return another cover or a step towards procreation , is the truest thing I heard in a long time, since no one can form a long lasting relationship without being attracted to that person physically, if the desire is absent or has faded, that relationship will either turn into a platonic one or just end, and also if you remove the element of procreation any romantic relationship can feels that it lacks something indeed.
@theanalyticalrevolutionary34153 жыл бұрын
Old Wisdom that will live for a lifetime and never eradicate. You are truly appreciated Arthur Schopenhauer💯
@markdavidignacio90732 жыл бұрын
I'm crying. Thank you.
@Samtino202 жыл бұрын
sounds beautiful and logical not pessimistic at all
@_the_watcher_20892 жыл бұрын
Worker hard in life doesn’t always pay off some will work hard, but still never move up as someone may who didn’t work as hard as you.
@greatness7683 жыл бұрын
He assisted in supporting people in getting out of their own way, quieting the complaints one may carry around unsuccessfully in their heads.
@piyushjadhav36673 жыл бұрын
The easiest way of not being very miserable in life is to expect to be less happy
@carolthomas85283 жыл бұрын
...... or to presume that we have a right to happiness .
@missy92793 жыл бұрын
Happiness is overrated, Stillness brings lasting peace.
@jaganmayeesahoo42103 жыл бұрын
Thanks ADMIN, for bringing his remarkable teachings about the life to all of us. # TONS OF LOVE FROM INDIA. AND AT THE MOMENT I KNOW, I AM THE LIFE.
@calvingrondahl10112 жыл бұрын
The will to humor... the will to honesty.
@goalhuntproductions30533 жыл бұрын
All you gotta do is start doing, take action! Your dreams will be achieved.
@jps01173 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. You should have watched the video before commenting.
@sirclarkmarz3 жыл бұрын
I bet you have a copy of the secret, what a chump .
@gaurav-hn5zd2 жыл бұрын
@@jps0117 😂 contrary
@AwakenZen Жыл бұрын
JUST ACHEIVE YOUR DREAMS BRO!
@shanezhang69622 жыл бұрын
This man speaks to my heart.
@GloriaTorres88883 жыл бұрын
Taking notes from your videos in solitude also gives me joy :-) Thanks!
@AGUNGKAYA3 жыл бұрын
So we just have to overcome the world, don't have too much expectation. When you expect too much, you will have much pain.
@Dacademeca3 жыл бұрын
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants." - Arthur Schopenhauer
@wendyjomendy2 жыл бұрын
Sadly that's how Ive always lived assuming the worst so I'd not be disappointed.
@lesliejkf3 жыл бұрын
So gratitude to see this sharing , Thank you.
@goalhuntproductions30533 жыл бұрын
I lost my job during the pandemic and now investing my time into building this KZbin channel. Am I doing good?
@albertgorman75873 жыл бұрын
Invest your all in it if that’s where your interest is 👌🏽
@dontbelongherefromanother2 жыл бұрын
The late Albert Ellison, psychotherapy, I believe adopted some of Schopenhauer's philosophic views in his therapeutic techniques
@greatness7683 жыл бұрын
Transformation: Nothing is permanent isn’t permanent until it’s ready. Using a timer helps unless being burnt means it’s done. So yes, I smoke pot.
@saulsayago71713 жыл бұрын
Happy to find your channel,I suscribed 😃..🧐
@theraptureisnearbelieveinj76953 жыл бұрын
I’m a natural pessimist! I could probably teach Schopenhauer a few things about it! 😂
@saidh15663 жыл бұрын
A very enjoyable video. Thanks
@malikialgeriankabyleswag42003 жыл бұрын
*Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science* “Indeed people nowadays can hardly endure the thought of pain, and make out of it an affair of conscience, and a reproach to collective existence. The appearance of pessimistic philosophies is not at all the sign of great and dreadful miseries, for these interrogative marks, regarding the worth of life, appear in periods when the refinement and eleviation of difficulty already deem the unavoidable gnat-stings of soul and body to be altogether too bloody and wicked. And in the poverty of actual experience of pain, would now like to make painful general ideas appear as suffering of the worst kind. There may indeed be a remedy for pessimism, and its excessive sensibility, which seems to me to be its real distress. . . The remedy for the distress is: distress.”
@47RokuW3 жыл бұрын
Great Philosopher ! Great video thank you!!✅
@jekuson11563 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised to know that there's actually a tutorial 😄😂
@Kelberi3 жыл бұрын
Ok you need not this tutorial.
@jekuson11563 жыл бұрын
@@Kelberi hahah I think so, I'm already a pessimist myself
@brianc9397 ай бұрын
I love this man!!!!!!!!
@thomaseriksson62563 жыл бұрын
Lot of stoic in the philosophy
@flabbybum95623 жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic summary of Schopenhauer! Many thanks.
@Almost3213 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video
@Mohamed-bm6yk2 жыл бұрын
I'll follow my intuition
@lifechallengs23153 жыл бұрын
needed and enjoyed it thank u
@Fireneedsair2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@aliakbarsanjari59593 жыл бұрын
Great work, thank you.
@lifechallengs23153 жыл бұрын
very helpful thanks
@joedavis41503 жыл бұрын
... :-)... Meditating on the meaning of life is pointless, Beyond the simple task of knowing right from wrong. What we really need is to fully experience the present moment.
@velvetpaws9992 жыл бұрын
LOVE is LOVE is LOVE is...................is.................is................it is.
@stephengopaul80903 жыл бұрын
This was beautiful.
@lakshmanvajjakeshavula53803 жыл бұрын
Thank you soo much sir
@MeYou-ut4kr2 жыл бұрын
Pain is a part of life! You can't avoid it! A full life is one who overcomes pain not one who minimalises it!
@juliuscaesar1562 жыл бұрын
Leaving a comment for the algorithm
@ikawinner9603 жыл бұрын
Amazing
@lekaherath97743 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for the video clip
@awolgeordie99263 жыл бұрын
Love Schoppy.
@Zibonnn4 ай бұрын
Well, looks like Schopenhauer was my type of guy. Down to earth. Zero hype, Zero disappointment. 😂
@rachealnassiwa33092 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@smkh28903 жыл бұрын
“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.” See observations by Libet that show the impetus to act originating in the brain briefly before we are consciously aware of it, This is one aspect of consciousness 'below the Limen' along with repressed experiences, the other being the imbued values of the SuperEgo.
@cinaannie73383 жыл бұрын
What a bummer philosophy dude! I'm more of an Epicurus type of person! 🤣🤷
@edgregory12 жыл бұрын
" Life is a task to be done." Summation: Ultimately, nothing matters. 😑
@jonpaul38682 жыл бұрын
Schopenhauer philosophy is basically natural ascetism.
@missy92793 жыл бұрын
The uploader should've been more creative with the video thumbnail caption..not to attract more views but to avoid "reducing" Arthur's work to mere pessimism. He gave some really important points to reflect upon, which depending upon one's perspectives can, use it for Success too.
@sirclarkmarz3 жыл бұрын
You have to remember a great many people watching this have a limited amount of understanding and it needs to be simple so they can grasp the basic concept
@aliriddick94282 жыл бұрын
So we can do as we will but we cannot will as we will. This is proven wrong by: I will to smoke get high drunk etc. What if i will to not will these things. & manage to do so. Does this not disprove Schopenhauer?
@timpoolbeanie75273 жыл бұрын
So basically he said "no one makes it out alive anyways so screw it all"
@raulrus90263 жыл бұрын
Ahahaga, that's exactly what people who has cancer think
@Kelberi3 жыл бұрын
Still I deserve to live well despite my abusive pass.😏🤣
@denisdenak3 жыл бұрын
@@Kelberi what makes you think you deserve anything?
@Kelberi3 жыл бұрын
@@denisdenak you won't get it 🤣
@denisdenak3 жыл бұрын
@@Kelberi joker music intensifies
@chongyu66653 жыл бұрын
agree.
@sofia-sylvialogotheti3 жыл бұрын
Thank you I don't take!
@NujudMoha2 жыл бұрын
The music please
@TheSilverGate3 жыл бұрын
Please do one on his animal rights views
@friedrichnietzsche25573 жыл бұрын
I'm pessimist too
@DarkW0lverine3 жыл бұрын
Sorry homie, your interpretation of Shoepanhauer's type of pessimism is just epicureanism. Should've started with a summation of 'pessimism' and its origins then going through the various points of his philosophy, then how it all comes together into his overall thesis on the universe/nature, which you don't nail. He's a great philosopher, whose ideas revolve around wanting people to overcome the weaknesses of human nature, the limitations of our world and for humanity to find a secular path to ascension. Have to thumbs down ya for being wrong in a few fundamental ways
@8xnnr2 жыл бұрын
I really doubt you had an accurate view of Arthur schopenhauer opinion of free will. I do not think he thought we had any control at all. But if this is your attempt to hold onto what you feel is control, then by all means.
@vikingshark26343 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure that trying this could only turn out badly for me.
@sofia-sylvialogotheti3 жыл бұрын
Preparing the soldiers to die for a....reason!
@ishita_042 жыл бұрын
Is it just me or your also find of bhagwat Geeta in his views.
@TajimaMunenori2 жыл бұрын
Is anyone else wondering if George Lucas got some of his ideas from Schopenhauer?
@olaniyi5703 жыл бұрын
I've gone beyond pessimism into absurdism.
@dullknifefactory2 жыл бұрын
You've actually moved backwards.
@doloresvangaal22483 жыл бұрын
How to be a realist.
@ericheine24143 жыл бұрын
I could never be a pessimist. I wouldn't even try to be one. They have clubs for pessimists but nobody ever goes. It'll never work.
@Mike-mc3sh3 жыл бұрын
Says the pessimist
@sirclarkmarz3 жыл бұрын
The first rule of pessimist club is that pessimist club will never work
@heleen3133 жыл бұрын
Hmm in view of present coaches..neurologists.. motivational speakers etc. I think these would be called "limiting beliefs" 🙄 I'd rather call it a depressimistic world view 😄
@drwalidosama3 жыл бұрын
I think it’s a bunch of illogical BS coming from a deep place of mental instability or lack of understanding of human nature/personality. There are many flaws in his pessimistic concepts: e.g. if all life has to offer is meaninglessness/there is no true meaning to life why bother meditating on life and death, spending more time living life to its fullest and removing unhappiness from your life? If you limit your expectations how will you ever get the motive to improve your abilities? At what point do you stop to reflect and limit expectations (at the age of 12 so you drop out of school as there’s no point dreaming of becoming an engineer for example as you know nothing about physics then?!) Who is responsible for establishing and maintaining “The Will” (the Matrix?!)? This is very selective pessimism he’s opted for to be able to craft a theory and a name.
@sirclarkmarz3 жыл бұрын
People will pay $250 to sit in the Hilton conference room for the weekend while some self-help guru blow smoke up their ***** and feed some full of happy talk and positive vibes . When they go back to their job in their regular life by the time Wednesday rolls around all of that will be out the window. What this video offers is priceless and if people take it to heart it will last them a lifetime
@excelsior9993 жыл бұрын
"How To Be a Pessimist" - just spend a couple of hours reading Schopenhauer.
@MaciejLorentz2 жыл бұрын
1. “BATMAN has no LIMITS!” Be Batman 2. Crime is eternal so Batman is eternal. Be Batman. 3. Mommy issues made Batman, be Batman. 4. The Bat loves the Cat because she moves like that be Batman. 5. No happiness only vengeance only the night embrace pain be Batman 6. Expect the unexpected with awesome gadgets, be Batman. 7. Cracking Skulls in dark alleyways brings Happiness and Peace, be Batman.
@RC-gg1ib3 жыл бұрын
This is it! Tiny blue ball in an infinite black sea....nothing we do fucking matters or means shit. Its all temp
@elibonsatvproduction3629 Жыл бұрын
Dialectics
@perunswrath60232 жыл бұрын
I always hated optimists
@theslyngl3 жыл бұрын
Antinatalism y'all
@НейтральныйМаппер-з2м Жыл бұрын
In short, beautiful houses are bad
@sossboss71233 жыл бұрын
Omg I’m a pessimist ;-;
@khalidhakimi933 жыл бұрын
why must the non existent come into existence only for it to go back into non existence? Schopenhauer puts light on many things but every man is limited in his thoughts, i am therefore a believer in afterlife for matter cannot create itself and neither can it be destroyed, the whole universe is energy whether in thoughts or concrete.i am a muslim. i greatly advise everyone to read the quran, you will find your answers in this book and there is no doubt
@gottod68952 жыл бұрын
I am Muslim myself but I have many questions that I do not have answers to, and no one in my community or of people I know want to answer and they even dread to hear the question.
@khalidhakimi932 жыл бұрын
@@gottod6895 and i bet they're philosophical questions from your own experiences and they're the ones that are very hard to be understood. how can you arrive safe to your destination without your tires getting punctured when there are are pot holes in the road? its the same with your iman as a Muslim, if you have questions unanswered then they're pot holes in the road and you'll struggle on the journey and so they have to be filled up and then on your way you go. but whats the questions if i may ask?
@gottod68952 жыл бұрын
@@khalidhakimi93 Asking them might be consisted heresy ,are you sure you want to hear them ?
@khalidhakimi932 жыл бұрын
@@gottod6895 I’m a truth seeker and love nothing than challenging people’s beliefs and ideas in pursuit of truth
@gottod68952 жыл бұрын
@@khalidhakimi93 OK then, for Now here are one question: If God knows the future, he knows what humans will do and decide and hence their fate, because he has already written everything, doesn't that collide with the concept of free will? If humans are free how can their actions and the path they follow be already decided ? And can we blame those who sin if they are just living as God destined them to live ?
@johninfl2 жыл бұрын
JP Morgan gave this a thumbs down.
@jps01173 жыл бұрын
Seems like the anti-Nietzsche.
@ΚωνσταντινοςΚαραλης-ω8ψ2 жыл бұрын
Schopenhauer was inconsequent,he lived a very luxurious life not in accordance with his theory.
@Danuxsy2 жыл бұрын
Which made him realise this.
@catherinesmith71293 жыл бұрын
I do not concur with his opinions/philosophic views. But then I do not agree withFreud neither.
@neeshu92063 жыл бұрын
Well, did you search over and over again about Buddha's history? Because you just put and said what you listen in shit people, that's why you dare to post about Buddha's lesson without knowing him and his nationality and other background...