Can someone explain what Schopenhauer means here?

People talk bullshit. You learn more about someone by what they do, rather than what they say. People lie.

It’s a bit like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. That the act of hearing someone speak and engaging with them changes your perspective so that you can no longer see them objectively.

Schopenhauer thought that the clearest reading of a man’s character came from the first look at his face. He felt that the less you are acquainted with or familiar with him, the less your impression will be distorted by your subjective feelings about him.

So what he is saying here is that as soon as someone engages you in conversation, you begin to lose the pure objectivity that allows you to read their character in the face.

A man may discuss his conflict, but his actions reveal his heart.

As most of us now know, Schopenhauer was full of bull.

A person’s morals is based on what he does, not what he says. A person’s speech is a distraction.

No so @Dan_Lyons. Schopenhauer helped bring an understanding of Eastern philosophy to Western civilization and his belief that humans were motivated by only their own basic desires has yet to be successfully refuted.
Further, who can argue with his statements that “woman is by nature meant to obey” and “Women are directly fitted for acting as the nurses and teachers of our early childhood by the fact that they are themselves childish, frivolous and short-sighted”
Yes, Schopenhauer is a man of brilliant insight and a sound ideology.

@rojo I’m still rotflmao!!!