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Single Idea 21477
[filed under theme 16. Persons / F. Free Will / 6. Determinism / a. Determinism
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Full Idea
Thoughts come not when we want but when they want.
Gist of Idea
We don't control our own thinking
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], III:37)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.122
A Reaction
One of my favourite Nietzsche ideas originated in Schopenhauer!
Related Idea
Idea 2291
A thought comes when 'it' wants, not when 'I' want [Nietzsche]
The
24 ideas
from 'Parerga and Paralipomena'
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21474
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Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation
[Schopenhauer]
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21473
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All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable
[Schopenhauer]
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21476
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A priori propositions are those we could never be seriously motivated to challenge
[Schopenhauer]
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21475
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All of our concepts are borrowed from perceptual knowledge
[Schopenhauer]
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21372
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Aesthetics concerns how we can take pleasure in an object, with no reference to the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21477
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We don't control our own thinking
[Schopenhauer]
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21478
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Half our thinking is unconscious, and we reach conclusions while unaware of premises
[Schopenhauer]
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21479
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Knowledge is not power! Ignorant people possess supreme authority
[Schopenhauer]
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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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21470
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For me the objective thing-in-itself is the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21485
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The state only exists to defend citizens, from exterior threats, and from one another
[Schopenhauer]
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21486
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Poverty and slavery are virtually two words for the same thing
[Schopenhauer]
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21487
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The freedom of the press to sell poison outweighs its usefulness
[Schopenhauer]
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21482
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The five Chinese virtues: pity, justice, politeness, wisdom, honesty
[Schopenhauer]
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21481
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Buddhists wisely start with the cardinal vices
[Schopenhauer]
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21483
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Man is essentially a dreadful wild animal
[Schopenhauer]
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21484
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A man's character can be learned from a single characteristic action
[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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21466
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Pleasure is weaker, and pain stronger, than we expect
[Schopenhauer]
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21467
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Would humanity still exist if sex wasn't both desired and pleasurable?
[Schopenhauer]
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21468
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The Creator created the possibilities for worlds, so should have made a better one than this possible
[Schopenhauer]
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21471
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If suicide was quick and easy, most people would have done it by now
[Schopenhauer]
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21488
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The beautiful is a perception of Plato's Forms, which eliminates the will
[Schopenhauer]
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21472
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Only religion introduces serious issues to uneducated people
[Schopenhauer]
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