Schopenhauer on Social Media‘[T]hey reverse the natural order, regarding the opinions of other

Schopenhauer on Social Media

‘[T]hey reverse the natural order, regarding the opinions of others as real existence and their own consciousness as something shadowy, making the derivative and secondary in to the principle, and considering the picture they present to the world of more importance than their own selves. By thus trying to get a direct and immediate result out of what has no really direct or immediate existence, they fall in to the kind of folly which is called vanity.’

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