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leading an existence rich in thought and full of life and meaning, occupied by worthy and interesting objects as soon as ever he is free to give himself to them
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“leading an existence rich in thought and full of life and meaning, occupied by worthy and interesting objects as soon as ever he is free to give himself to them”

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The Wisdom of Life
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1851
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T. Bailey Saunders — Translator · from German
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Meaning of “leading an existence rich in thought and full…”

Schopenhauer describes a meaningful intellectual life as one filled by sustained engagement with worthy objects of thought rather than by external stimulation alone.

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The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. The wording belongs to Schopenhauer’s contrast between intellectual and ordinary forms of leisure.

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