The Wisdom of Life - Softcover

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1523417617 ISBN 13: 9781523417612

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

circumstances to follow a sedentary occupation, some minute exquisite work of the hands, for example, or to engage in study and mental labor demanding quite other powers, and just those which he has not got,--compelled, that is, to leave unused the powers in which he is pre-eminently strong; a man placed like this will never feel happy all his life through. Even more miserable will be the lot of the man with intellectual powers of a very high order, who has to leave them undeveloped and unemployed, in the pursuit of a calling which does not require them, some bodily labor, perhaps, for which his strength is insufficient. Still, in a case of this kind, it should be our care, especially in youth, to avoid the precipice of presumption, and not ascribe to ourselves a superfluity of power which is not there.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1523417617
• ISBN 13: 9781523417612
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102