Arthur Schopenhauer
Translated from German 🇩🇪
«When you find human society disagreeable and
feel yourself justified in flying to solitude, you can
be so constituted as to be unable to bear the
depression of it for any length of time, which will
probably be the case if you are young.
Let me advise you, then, to form the habit of taking some
of your solitude with you into society, to learn to be
to some extent alone even though you are in
company; not to say at once what you think, and,
on the other hand, not to attach too precise a
meaning to what others say; rather, not to expect
much of them, either morally or intellectually, and to
strengthen yourself in the feeling of indifference to
their opinion, which is the surest way of always
Practicing a praiseworthy toleration.
If you do that, you will not live so much with other people, though
you may appear to move amongst them: your
relation to them will be of a purely objective character.
This precaution will keep you from too
close contact with society, and therefore secure
you against being contaminated or even outraged by it.
Society is in this respect like a fire— the wise
man warming himself at a proper distance from it;
not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting
scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in
his complaint that the fire burns. »
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By Laurent Guidali
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