Schopenhauer: Don't Praise Yourself | Counsels & Maxims 40
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Even mild self praise will
Even mild self praise will be mistaken for vanity.
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Section 40 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
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Schopenhauer Text:
Even when you are fully justified in praising yourself, you should never be seduced into doing so. For vanity is so very common, and merit so very uncommon, that even if a man appears to be praising himself, though very indirectly, people will be ready to lay a hundred to one that he is talking out of pure vanity, and that he has not sense enough to see what a fool he is making of himself.
Still, for all that, there may be some truth in Bacon's remark that, as in the case of calumny, if you throw enough dirt, some of it will stick, so it it also in regard to self-praise; with the conclusion that self-praise, in small doses, is to be recommended.
Schopenhauer playlist: Schopenhauer's Counsels & Maxims (Tex...
Section 40 of Counsels and Maxims (1851)
0:00 Vanity is Common, Merit Uncommon
0:48 But Throw Enough & Some May Stick
2:24 My Doubts
#Philosophy #Schopenhauer #lifeadvice
Music: Among the Clouds, by Darren Curtis
Thumbnail Image: 1815 Portrait, By Ludwig Sigismund Ruhl - Schopenhauer-Archiv der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Schopenhauer Text:
Even when you are fully justified in praising yourself, you should never be seduced into doing so. For vanity is so very common, and merit so very uncommon, that even if a man appears to be praising himself, though very indirectly, people will be ready to lay a hundred to one that he is talking out of pure vanity, and that he has not sense enough to see what a fool he is making of himself.
Still, for all that, there may be some truth in Bacon's remark that, as in the case of calumny, if you throw enough dirt, some of it will stick, so it it also in regard to self-praise; with the conclusion that self-praise, in small doses, is to be recommended.
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