Schopenhauer: Self-Sufficiency is the Key to Happiness | Counsels & Maxims 9

Sociability is inversely proportional to intellectual power, and to age.

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Section 9 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)

0:00 Introduction
1:15 Self-Sufficiency is Key to Happiness
4:00 Only Free When Alone
5:45 Higher Man is More Solitary
10:20 Society's Fake Hierarchy
12:43 Solitude's Evils Compared with Society's
13:45 Best to Be Alone
18:18 Orchestra of Russian Horns
Infiltration
Value of Solitude

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