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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
.....As a rule, a man is sociable just in the degree in which he is intellectually poor and generally vulgar.
..........— Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German philosopher. "Wisdom of Life," Chapter II: "Personality, or What a Man Is," from The Wisdom of Life: and Other Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Bailey Saunders and Ernest Belfort Bax (M. Walther Dunne, 1901), p. 20.
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While I agree with Mr. Sunshine's idea that what one is influences our happiness rather than what one has. I will have to disagree with the manner in which he phrases the thought above. Intelligence does not preclude sociability, and, as we all know, neither does the lack of intelligence.
I'd say Schopenhauer suffers from the "ivory tower" syndrome. Very close to being offensive
, especially considering the rest of his quote.
Quote:
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
--Kurt Vonnegut
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