Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met”
- Source
- The Wisdom of Life
- Date
- 1851
- English wording
- T. Bailey Saunders — Translator · from German
Meaning of “less depends upon what befalls us than upon…”
The maxim shifts attention from events alone to the way a person receives and interprets them, making response and temperament part of Schopenhauer’s account of well-being.
Where does it come from?
The Wisdom of Life, T. Bailey Saunders translation; Project Gutenberg #10741. This is a philosophical claim about temperament, not a denial that external circumstances can matter greatly.
