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Single Idea 20102
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / F. Existentialism / 4. Boredom
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Full Idea
Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.
Gist of Idea
Flight from boredom leads to art
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Works (refs to 8 vol Colli and Montinari) [1885], 8.432), quoted by Rüdiger Safranski - Nietzsche: a philosophical biography Intro
Book Ref
Safranski,Rüdiger: 'Nietzsche: a philosophical biography' [Granta 2003], p.23
A Reaction
I might even say that all human achievement comes from boredom.
The
30 ideas
with the same theme
[there seems to be nothing worth doing]:
2912
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Plato is boring
[Nietzsche on Plato]
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9299
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We are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring
[Rochefoucauld]
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21480
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Boredom is only felt by those clever enough to need activity
[Schopenhauer]
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21469
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Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact
[Schopenhauer]
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9305
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The plebeians bore others; only the nobility bore themselves
[Kierkegaard]
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21910
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Our destiny is the highest pitch of world-weariness
[Kierkegaard]
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9306
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To ward off boredom at any cost is vulgar
[Nietzsche]
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14844
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People do not experience boredom if they have never learned to work properly
[Nietzsche]
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20102
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Flight from boredom leads to art
[Nietzsche]
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20179
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Happiness involves enduring boredom, and the young should be taught this
[Russell]
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20177
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Boredom always involves not being fully occupied
[Russell]
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20178
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Life is now more interesting, but boredom is more frightening
[Russell]
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20176
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Boredom is an increasingly strong motivating power
[Russell]
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20767
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Culture is now dominated by boredom, so universal it is unnoticed
[Heidegger, by Aho]
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23823
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Life needs risks to avoid sickly boredom
[Weil]
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24205
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Monotony is beautiful as a reflection of eternity, or atrocious as unvarying perpetuity
[Weil]
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19602
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You are stuck in the past if you don't know boredom
[Cioran]
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19641
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If you lack beliefs, boredom is your martyrdom
[Cioran]
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19640
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No one is brave enough to say they don't want to do anything; we despise such a view
[Cioran]
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19644
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History is the bloody rejection of boredom
[Cioran]
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23062
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It is better to watch the hours pass, than trying to fill them
[Cioran]
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23069
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Fear cures boredom, because it is stronger
[Cioran]
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9300
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Boredom is serious, not just uncomfortable; it threatens our psychic survival
[Frankfurt]
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20290
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Psychopaths may just be bored, because they cannot participate in normal emotional life
[Singer]
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20172
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Boredom destroys our ability to evaluate
[Kekes]
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20173
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Boredom is apathy and restlessness, yearning for something interesting
[Kekes]
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9298
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We can be unaware that we are bored
[Svendsen]
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9301
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Boredom is so radical that suicide could not overcome it; only never having existed would do it
[Svendsen]
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9302
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We are bored because everything comes to us fully encoded, and we want personal meaning
[Svendsen]
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9310
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The profoundest boredom is boredom with boredom
[Svendsen]
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