PHILOSOPHY - La Rochefoucauld

[@jadeleylouis-jean1029]

I'd love to sit down in these salons and have conversations over light snacks and lemonade.

[@redbug3485]

Apple pie and Coffee, plus what you said!

[@Jake007123]

You can do it with your friends yourself! You don't even have to be nobility and rich nowadays!

[@damien4246]

We should try it one day.

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

@@Jake007123 Right. Only very few people then could afford not to work from dawn till dusk, or to get an education (even just to learn to read).

[@Jake007123]

@@exnihilonihilfit6316 That's what you generally get when you let capitalism get rampant without regulation. People need to unite against it.

[@huethen5454]

Imagine how well he would do in the age of twitter.

[@gordonm7038]

hu yichen People would stop trying like Bukowski said.

[@AndreLuispma11]

Follow him here twitter.com/FranoisdeLaRoc4

[@cameron1896]

4-years later and this joke seems more relevant with each year that passes

[@z0uLess]

no one would have cared. authority functions differently now. I write one-liners like this but no one reads them.

[@S10Alexander]

@@z0uLessmost people didn’t and don’t care about his writing either Do your one liners make people realize something that seems true but they never put to words?

[@demianhaki7598]

Aphorisms also have the benefit of sometimes unearthing philosophical truths in unexpected places. I recently came across a quote by Mike Tyson who said "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face"...Weirdly, whether literally or metaphorically, that seemed like a universal truth of life^^

[@coweatsman]

Demian Haki I had no idea that the ear eater could be so witty.

[@gamesbok]

+coweatsman It's as the old Prussian military maxim, No plan survives contact with the enemy. Hi Evander, do you want another rematch? No thanks. I got one 'ere.

[@jodicompton5561]

+Demian Haki Mike Tyson was quoting a previous boxer, Joe Louis: "Everyone has a plan until they get hit."

[@gordonm7038]

Demian Haki Tyson speaks from the heart. He's heard all the punk bullshit.

[@virvisquevir3320]

Demian Haki - One of the best one-liners ever.

[@demianhaki7598]

That's why comedians are often so culturally influential. You remember the punchlines.

[@popc5245]

Demian Haki George Carlin is are modern La Rochefoucauld

[@TomboTime]

+Keyser Soze personally I always saw him more like a modern day Diogenes.

[@TomboTime]

+Keyser Soze personally I always saw him more like a modern day Diogenes.

[@popc5245]

TomboTime If you take into consideration "a place for my stuff" yeah i can perfectly see it

[@CantThinkofaCoolOne]

Superb. Can't wait to grab a copy of his "Maxims," book now. True joy.

[@jaredong]

Really appreciate these vids. Amid the mess of cooking, video game and anime channels, this is the only channel that helps center myself.

[@MADLyricStudio]

Jared Ong Yes this helps me to :)

[@josephbestallin626]

so his philosophy is basically "tl;dr"?

[@pepeman3099]

most of it

[@aquariusliu24]

father of twitter tbh

[@gordonm7038]

No. But his axioms of the human heart haunt the soul until death.

[@yonathanasefaw9001]

What's tl;dr?

[@tuan2352]

@@yonathanasefaw9001 too long; didn't read

[@bolivar1789]

Before that bullet went through his head, La Rochefoucauld had only thoughts about power, money and women in it. After the incident poor thing was blinded for five months. What a wake up call that must have been! I wonder if he wrote this maxim back then: "You cannot stare straight into the face of the sun, or death." There is a great book by the existential psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, called " Staring at the sun". It begins with this quote. Wonderful book to help you to face your own death and thereby lead a more meaningful life. By the way talking about maxims, I remembered a fancy term I once read somewhere: " A paraprosdokian sentence". So here is the definition, very similar to a maxim I guess: " It is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is extremely popular among comedians and satirists." I don't know who wrote it, but here is a great example of it and a big consolation: "The early bird might get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! "

[@bolivar1789]

***** Thank you for reading!

[@egwofcourse2]

You see even back then,the masses were dipped in ignorance about philosophical matters. Today however,we have the power of presenting philosophy in such a way the uneducated and educated can both come together to contemplate on the complexity of a skeptical/philospical way of thinking and observation. I'm talking about the wonderful animation on these presentations&8bit philosophy

[@rikrdomrn]

You must be fun at parties :)

[@bolivar1789]

rikrdomrn Thank you! I am glad if I could make you laugh:-)

[@TheLandOfTears]

***** I know a person who could stare into the sun for hours :D. And you can't stare death in the face because you'll have your eyes closed when you die haha. La Rochefoucauld got me now.

[@coweatsman]

La Rochefoucauld's genius was that he could essay in 140 characters or less.

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

My kind of guy! I'm a quote collector, and what I most prize is the quote that expresses something quite profound with great brevity and economy. And when it does so with wit and humor - then it's golden! Of course, he wasn't the first... see the poetry of Callimachos in the ancient world. And he wasn't the last... see Oscar Wilde, G.B. Shaw, Twain, etc., etc...

[@teckyify]

I love his name Rochefoucauld, Rochefoucauld, la Rochefoucauld, I can say this all day long!

[@CrazyLinguiniLegs]

Much better than "that douche, Foucault"

[@Myron_X]

That's the main reason why I became interested in him.

[@yodamaycry4838]

La Rochefoucauld is good proof that it is not the length of the statement but the length of time spent developing the statement that can truly make it great. The failure of Twitter may not necessarily be the limiting format, perhaps it is the addictive gratification of instant publication without intellectual forethought that is truly detrimental to the human conversation.

[@huiyichen6554]

"The only people we can think of as normal are those we don't yet know very well". I never realised that philosophy could offer solace...

[@JTeixeira90]

Isn't the sound a bit too low?

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

***** No worries, I have a volume control...

[@iggypopshot]

Yeah I thought it was me until I read the comments, and I too have volume control! :)

[@danielxu647]

José Pedro Teixeira i thought i was deaf for a second

[@dawnglianapachuau6433]

True... Need to put on a headphone.

[@TribuneAquila]

"There are those who would have never have fallen in love had they not heard about it in the first place" reminds me of "The greatest sin today is not being angry or depressed, rather its not being happy enough."

[@vlads.4459]

He is my favorite! Beautifully elegant!

[@willferrous8677]

This video resonates strongly when you see walls of text in the youtube comment section, something im frequently guilty of. Come to think of it maybe that's why the school of life always reply in a concise manner

[@dglukesluthier]

Brilliant! I believe good songs do just this. By using well considered music to draw people in you can convey such complex thoughts and amplify their sentiment in a way that words alone struggle to do. More often than not the listener is blissfully unaware, but the thought sticks. It's such a subtle art but far more effective than a dusty passage.

[@AbhishekSingh_023]

Simply Brilliant!!!A zenith of excellence in expressing his ideas .

[@mjnyc8655]

I recall reading Maxims for the first time. I was astonished by finding nails hit straight on the head sentence after sentence. I highly recommend reading Maxims.

[@GlorifiedTruth]

Holy shit, I never thought I'd hear anyone give a plausible justification for Twitter. Moving on to Espinoza...

[@jayHVam]

Thankyou, :) I did laugh out in front of my computer at some of his little quotes...

[@zofiawegrzynowicz-bogiel9447]

Amazing! I'm immediately starting to look for his book! Thank you for this wonderful video!🙏👏🌹

[@123kickinitSUPER]

When I was in elementary school I made these quotes all of the time in hopes of knowing about myself, life, problems, and what to expect about them.

[@Chotabear]

I use to have Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld; it was a very tatty little book I got from an antiquarian book shop. I don't know what happened to it but I loved it. I'd recommend it to anyone. It's very entertaining especially if you're a fan of cynicism. :)

[@lynnefranks6674]

I have the same one. Yellowing pages. Pale pink/white brown cover. Looks nondescript. I couldn't believe I had found it! I went out with his great great great great (etc)...grandson, in Paris, for a year in 1970/71. They were very different people, but there were similarities. One family member was a W.W.2 French Resistance hero. Look him up. Same amazing intelligence.

[@DrumBeat231]

I think Camus used this very well. "We must assume Sisyphus happy," or "it takes some incredible effort to be normal" (or something like that).

[@ilcaravaggio3740]

Your work is truly amazing, and should be known by millions, instead of thousands. Your 'vulgarisation' is clear and right. I am still waiting for Voltaire ! I would like to know YOUR opinion on philosophy. Un français vous salue !

[@Pandaemoni]

Nietzsche also included aphorisms in Twilight of the Idols and elsewhere, most famously "From life's school of war: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger." (Or perhaps the most famous is "He who fights monsters...," from Beyond Good and Evil.) It may not have been his primary thing or conveyed his main concepts, but he wasn't a stranger to shorty, pithy sayings like some philosophers seem to be. And sometimes his bigger ideas were conveyed briefly, as in Aphorism 13 from Beyond Good & Evil: "Physiologists should think twice before positioning the drive for self-preservation as the cardinal drive of an organic being. Above all, a living thing wants to discharge its strength - life itself is will to power -: self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent consequences of this."

[@arturomartes8696]

+Pandaemoni Right. Nietzsche is underrated as an aphorist and master of sarcasm: "You run ahead? Are you doing it as a shepherd? Or as an exception? A third case would be as a fugitive."

[@flayedcrux9777]

+Pandaemoni You tried, I'll give you that.

[@threeeyedgoddess7635]

love this video the graphics/animation/design are clever, amusing, and in the service of PHILOSOPHY!

[@Valosken]

Beautiful. I think I might buy this book.

[@crmcl37]

Great videos! Thank you very much for making them. Would love to see some female philosophers featured too :)

[@lynnefranks6674]

Indeed! Weren't there any? I didn't study philosophy. But what about Dorothy Parker ...?

[@Thesocraticbreed]

Do one on Boethius please. He is a brilliant philosopher who dealt with the chaos of the start of hte Dark Ages. His Consolidations of Philosophy has a lot of good stuff to say on fortune, good life, happiness,etc.

[@lynnefranks6674]

Will look him up!

[@potenvandebizon]

Truly great video, la Rochefoucault takes what the dutch like to call 'tegelspreuken' (lit. tile sayings, the sort of proverbs you might find on a plate or a tile) to a next level. Looking for his book as of now.

[@TruthOverEverything]

Twitter thanks him

[@audreyyeo4219]

Alain, this is one of my favourite videos. I love the way the pictures bring more than words to life. Every video has a strong message of consolation, it's like TSOL understands what we really need right now. I often mistaken my goal for finding contentment and or cheerfulness in your videos. Will you explain to us more directly on how we can have status contentment / cheerfulness? How we can bring Matisse to life on the outside?

[@popc5245]

For non-english speakers so know just the rigth amount of the lenguage the CC subs with transcrip from the other videos, well be MAGNIFICENT

[@fraidoonw]

I've got his book! Maxims! great book. thanks TSOL.

[@greyedgerton2890]

This may be the comment of a weak thinker, but for me, philosophy began to really make sense after spending perhaps an inordinate amount of time with the pre-Socratics. Thought has surely been pulled-apart and added to, but they really said it all.

[@Ayelord_khory]

This was beautiful, thank you School of Life

[@paulstacklin8052]

La Rochefoucald - granddaddy of the sound byte!

[@coweatsman]

Paul Stacklin He would have loved Twitter.

[@oknows2]

Could you guys possibly do a video on the ideas of Alan Watts? IMHO his projects are very much in the spirit of the ideas presented in this and other videos you guys have done. Also, appreciation from the four corners. These videos are great. Y'all are dope humans.

[@AleksandraLapaeva]

Another great from this era is Jean de La Bruyère. His "Characters" is a great book, so witty and entertaining.

[@blessingallovermylife4690]

The video is very helpful, it looks like a good commercial on television👍

[@TheMissmicki]

This is a wonderful insight to La Rouchefoucald--This reminds me of the mini Monty Python workings and cartoons. Awesome work, Ive subscribed!

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

Nietzsche may not equal him but at least you can THINK you know what he's saying, even if you may well be wrong. With most other philosophers of the past several centuries, even their peers can't agree what they were trying to say. (Heidegger being a spectacular example.)

[@jungao6470]

We all have enough strength to bear the troubles of other people. ----La Rochefoucauld

[@thetruth4654]

I look forward to reading he`s Maxims

[@milorivera66]

''If he didn't arrived , that's because he didn't come....''' XD XD ..:P

[@MagicOscar]

Beautiful. Could you make one on Arthur Schopenhauer? I think A.S. was a brilliant writter who had an advantage as well from other philosophers of his time: he wrote about complex topics with smooth/simple writting.

[@santiagocarreno5881]

La Rochefocauld is the frenchiest guy I have ever heard of...

[@Alwsmith]

Please keep these coming!

[@mrlolzot]

Another great video, thank you.

[@gtabro1337]

Thank you La Rochefoucauld, very cool

[@SuperGreatSphinx]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer)

[@beatrizsanchez4983]

Antes de continuar la filosofia no es para ser hablada asi de rapido , recuerdo que con 1 palabra estabamos 15 minutos en clase y este hombre va a 1000 le quita el analisis exquisito .

[@kaos9644]

De los mejores,tengo un pequeño libro viejisimo de él,lo empecé a leer a los 6años,un genio.

[@tarunwadhwa9723]

Thanks for the video "School of Life".. Can we also have a lecture on Hegel/Bertrand please ? This is a sincere request since I know how much busy you guys are . Please do consider making in this one as Hegel/Bertrand has a big influence on our present philosophical thoughts.

[@Mobri]

One wonders if La Rochefoucauld served as inspiration for this channel's creators!

[@nikifora.738]

videos from this channel are so pretentiously presented, that I feel dirty not watching them on a 2000 euros Macbook pro.

[@dillagentlychillin]

Aphorism: what is worth quoting from the soul’s dialogue with itself. Yahia Lababidi

[@drcommondrate12]

Almost all of his maxims appeal to the fact that it is human nature to be center of his own universe. I love him lmao

[@jessebrettjames]

Correction** La Marquise de sable pronounced "SAABLAH" not SABLAY not being pedantic, at least not attempting to be. Really enjoy these presentations immensely informative and refreshingly usful

[@lukemcneill4504]

I'm in my final semester of university and I'm so thankful that I've found The School of Life channel, as it enables me to have confidence in the fact that I'll still be able to get snippets of quality and informative bits of knowledge after graduation. Thank you so much for encouraging life-long learning, as well as emotional and intellectual growth! I'm hoping that one day you'll have the opportunity to open a branch in Toronto, considering the fact that Toronto is in need of something exactly like this.

[@mankytoes]

We feel so self empowered by self victimising.

[@filfyrich2831]

one of the most remarkable things I find about these guys is how they managed to balance war and Philosophy, please do a video about that. pretty please

[@nailshoe3765]

@the school of life . I'm a really big fan of your great videos yet I have small comment that you still didn't bring up great philosophers of the middle ago like 1. ALFARABI. 2. AlKANDY. 3 avicenna. 4. Ibn Rushd. 5. Ghazaly. 6 ibn khaldoun. 7. Ziryab. 8. Ibn alhaythm. Which all had a big influence on the arab persian world and European. There still some translations in latin in princton university and other universities both in Europe and the world

[@lynnefranks6674]

Isn't.. nail shoe .. just showing off here?

[@TheCalculatorGuy]

Could TSOL (or any other commented) point me towards the text with the translations used in this video? They're the best I've come across.

[@TheCalculatorGuy]

+The School of Life You're legend.

[@Orthannos]

Do you have any sources confirming that the book was a hoac made by his ennemies ? I could only find that it was printed without his authorisation, and then he printed his own copy of it.

[@ZShihab]

You had me at "lemonade and light snacks"

[@meb6625]

Beautiful minds ✊🏻

[@tangerinesarebetterthanora7060]

4:47 They shouldn't have put up Nietzsche. He had an aphoristic style himself, is a very entertaining read and is one of the greatest literary philosophers in history.

[@ctfrancia]

Thank you so much for this. I know I have been critical of your previous videos but this really looks good. Could I make a philosophy request? I would really like to see a TSOL on the Cynics!

[@crobinso2010]

Leonard Cohen's lyrics often take this form.

[@gustavvides6657]

PLEASE MAKE: THOMAS AQUINAS!!!!!!!!!!! PARMINIDES!!!!!! HANNA ARENDT!!! SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR!!!!!!! JACQUES DERRIDA!!!!!!!! JOHN STUART MILL!!!!!

[@tufail1823]

Now I'm convinced that Pakalu Papito is a disciple of La Rochefoucauld.

[@mraurelianbme]

If good and evil exists, than humanity is much more evil than good.

[@ilqar887]

It's both everything is both also the nature

[@rlathbury]

As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From nature, I believe 'em true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: "In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends"... -"Verses on the Death of Dr. [Jonathan] Swift"

[@everizza]

i keep moving my timeline to 0:48 to 51 just so i can hear the correct pronounciation lol...still missing it though

[@billbright1755]

The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, and with them ran away.

[@moshefabrikant1]

4:32 Mind blowing

[@jsguitargeek1432]

Just.... wow.

[@manwhale3398]

Holy Shit! Alain de Botton, is that you?

[@marcusgorvin175]

Man whale, is that you?

[@TheMinkfish]

Manwhale

[@saritamungad8131]

Manwhale Man it's so nice to see you again. How's that aquarium of yours doing?

[@oksimoron222]

Hello! I didn't check all your videos yet, but you seem to be lacking on female historic figures. Thank you for the work you have done so far. Cheers:)

[@user-hf6vy8xc4i]

I’m sure La Rochefoucauld would enjoy your videos too 😜

[@M_Faraday]

Interesting that you seem to be contrasting Nietzsche's style with that of La Rochefoucauld, and in an unflattering way at that (at 5:14 and elsewhere). But Nietzsche himself professes to admire La Rochefoucauld (e.g. in "Human, All Too Human" §35), and clearly follows his style, if imperfectly. Aren't there better comparisons with more suspiciously opaque philosophers to be made? (I do not wish name names, but am pleased to see Hegel here).

[@Lonesome_lopez]

+M_Faraday Dude, these guys aren't dumb. You can see Nietzsche pop out right after Alain says "with the odd exception". Anyway, even you can't deny that going through the entire work of Nietzsche is not an easy task, while you can read La Rochefoucauld's book in a single evening.

[@M_Faraday]

+Jorge López Who is calling anyone 'dumb'? Anyway, you are right to point out the Nietzsche graphic, which helps (a bit). And yes, reading Nietzsche is hard. But a lot of us do it anyway. As for La Rochefoucauld, I wouldn't take his brevity as a sign of ease: it takes a lot of time to digest him.

[@virvisquevir3320]

M_Faraday - Reading Nietzsche is easy, a joy, once you wrap everything he says around his central theme Will to Power.

[@talcdebebe7553]

Roland Barthes says something about La Rochefoucauld which is interesting. There is two ways to read La Rochefoucauld : only citations or through the book [from the first page to the last page...]. Citations are pour-moi because they tell something about me, they describe my own situation through 4 centuries and the entire book is pour-soi because it tells something about the author, his obsession, his inner monolog... The reader has a different project if he reads it in the one way or in the other way.

[@hellcat28]

So this Larochefoucould was the the inventor of stand Up comedy.

[@oh_rhythm]

this guy's maaaa nigguh! I totally think and feel for the aphorisms.

[@mycroftholmes7379]

Actually, Marquise de Sable was with Marguerite Therese de Volvire d'Aunac, not with Comtesse de Lafayette...Madeleine de Souvre invited couple of intellectuals on her salon.... Comtesse de Lafayette have only met La rochefoucauld in a different occasion, but it wasnt hinted that she was very close with Madeleine de Souvre....

[@Blaze936]

I've always read his name as the Duck of Roachfookold.

[@matthewmelange]

I feel like the audio on this episode is a little lower than usual. Compare to the Augustine video. And yes, I have my volume on max on both speakers and youtube.

[@matthewmelange]

Appreciated.

[@Frexican54]

When will you guys make a video on Schopenhauer?

[@ЕржанНасанов]

He is a Jaden Smith of the 18th century

[@felishisimoniel6916]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@felishisimoniel6916]

Are you russian?

[@murrayaronson3753]

Bravo!

[@RobSmith2016]

Somebody should make a video on Alain De Botton for making philosophy more accessible to a wider audience. Maybe Posthumously ?

[@RobSmith2016]

Alain de Botton I'm sorry but that's the way it's done mostly

[@PennyDreadful1]

...Are you suggesting that we should kill Alain De Botton?

[@louisdavies8050]

La Rochefoucauld book is amazing, although one obvious problem is his attitude toward women and romantic love. He clearly had some bitterness there.

[@LiamPorterFilms]

This channel is amazing. A breath of fresh air: wisdom and learning free of any ideological slant or pomposity.

[@stdrum-nb6qr]

More PHILOSOPHY. It's lifesaving. Give us PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY

[@Alexander-gy4dd]

st. drum you could read too

[@fboscmin]

Why don't you prepare an episode on Baltasar Gracián and his aphorisms?

[@charliewaitforit]

love the vids!!!! could you please fix the volume stuff.

[@bryanl6592]

Hi TSOL, where would i be able to find the compendium of acerbic melancholy observations about the human condition? Ive googled it online but all ive found are articles discussing the compendium

[@MarkusJaeger-itguy]

so he was the first stand-up commedian?