Before discussing Schopenhauer's theory of happiness, let me extract a few quotations from Schopenhauer:

1. A healthy beggar is happier than a dying king.

2. The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

3. When we study, others are replacing our thoughts, and we just repeat the process of his ideological activities, just like when children learn Chinese characters, they draw a gourd with pen-and-ink strokes according to the strokes written by the teacher in pencil. Our ideological activities are largely exempted from reading.

Fundamentally speaking, only by independent thinking can we truly have truth and life.

Wealth is like sea water. The more you drink, the more thirsty you are. Fame is actually the same.

Schopenhauer's famous words are still many. It is no exaggeration to say that many of Schopenhauer's famous sayings are "1 sentence is worth 65438+ million sentences", and he can vividly express profound philosophy in a few words, which will be remembered forever. For example, the first sentence of the famous saying above: "A healthy beggar is happier than a dying king", which makes us vividly understand the great significance of health to happiness. The third sentence of the above famous saying is about reading. There are many famous sayings about reading, but Schopenhauer's famous saying about reading tells us that the more books we read, the better, and warns us not to read indiscriminately, blindly and blindly. Schopenhauer's fifth famous saying about wealth and fame has gone deep into the bone marrow.

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788- 1860) is a great German thinker, philosopher, writer, old linguist and linguist. Schopenhauer's representative works mainly include The World as Will and Representation, On Vision and Color, On Will in Nature, On Freedom of Will and Two Basic Problems in Ethics.

Schopenhauer's philosophy is widely known because his Philosophy of Happiness puts forward many unique and "profound" viewpoints, which actually plays an important role in promoting our individual happiness.

Regarding the happiness of life, Schopenhauer suggested that if people want to be happy, they should stop one thing and do another well. What's the difference?

If we are afraid of something, it will come to us at an alarming rate. What we are chasing, it will pass by us at an amazing speed. So is happiness. We pursue happiness, but it is easy to leave us, just like the fine sand we hold with our fists.

Schopenhauer warned us that if we want happiness, then we must stop chasing it. He suggested that we do this: "We don't expect anything except what we have." This is because if we pursue happiness, it will bring a series of unhappiness and even disasters. He stressed: "It is precisely because we strive for happiness and glory that we have brought great misfortune." The so-called "contentment", a lot of misfortune and pain, are caused by our wrong behavior, and wrong behavior is often caused by our "dissatisfaction."

As mentioned above, Schopenhauer believes that people should stop "chasing happiness" if they want to be happy. However, to stop "chasing happiness" is not to let us sit around and wait for the rabbit to come, nor to let us wait for happiness to fall from the sky.

On the contrary, Schopenhauer emphasized that we must block the road of pain. Every one of us, without exception, wants to be happy. When we were young, we had many ideals. When we were young, we had great ideals. When we were young, we hoped that all our ideals could be realized, thinking that we would be happy. But with the growth of age, we gradually realize and appreciate the truth that "life is not satisfactory in nine cases out of ten". At this time, we are no longer young, and gradually understand more truth. We gradually understand that "happiness and happiness are just a mirage", which is fleeting and can't even catch the tail and shadow. All the luxury and brilliance are just appearances.

Compared with happiness like a mirage, pain and misfortune are real, real and clear. All the misfortunes and pains in our lives are concrete and real, real and concrete, and we don't need any imagination at all. At this time, we will gradually, as Schopenhauer emphasized, "stop chasing happiness and enjoyment and pay more attention to how to block the road of pain and suffering as much as possible."

In short, happiness is illusory and pain is real. Therefore, for the sake of our happiness, we must stop chasing happiness and happiness and find ways to avoid our own pain and misfortune.