Schopenhauer: Why Old Age is Happier Than Youth | Counsels & Maxims 58

At the end of life, masks come off and we see others as they really are.

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Fifth Part of Chapter 5 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)

0:00 Introduction
1:21 Time Moves Faster
5:39 Effects on Life
7:22 Right Use of Youth
10:27 World vs Thought
13:40 Intellectual Powers Compared
17:52 Chronological Snobbery
19:45 Intellect Changes, Character Does Not
23:36 Text and Commentary
24:53 Masks Off
27:59 Is Youth or Age Happier?
31:06 Plato's Republic Excerpt
33:41 Sad Youth, Genial Age
38:31 Peace of Mind

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Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis

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