german word for pleasure from someone else's pain
Schadenfreude
title: Schadenfreude text: Schadenfreude Schadenfreude (; ; 'harm-joy') is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, or humiliation of another. It is one of four related emotions or concepts. Schadenfreude is a complex negative emotion. Rather than feeling sympathy towards someone's misfortune, schadenfreude evokes joyful feelings that take pleasure from watching someone fail. This emotion is displayed more in children than adults, however adults also experience schadenfreude, they are just better at concealing their expressions. "Schadenfreude" is borrowed from German; it is a compound of "Schaden", "damage, harm", and "Freude", "joy". The German title: Pleasure text: pleasure itself as "freedom from pain in the body and freedom from turmoil in the soul". According to Cicero (or rather his character Torquatus) Epicurus also believed that pleasure was the chief good and pain the chief evil. In the 12th century Razi's "Treatise of the Self and the Spirit" ("Kitab al Nafs Wa’l Ruh") analyzed different types of pleasure, sensuous and intellectual, and explained their relations with one another. He concludes that human needs and desires are endless, and "their satisfaction is by definition impossible." The 19th-century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer understood pleasure as a negative sensation, one that title: Schadenfreude text: joy and hate, when we rejoice at other men's mischief, and are grieved at their prosperity; pride, self-love, emulation, envy, shame, &c., of which elsewhere." The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer mentioned "Schadenfreude" as the most evil sin of human feeling, famously saying "To feel envy is human, to savor schadenfreude is diabolic." Rabbi Harold S. Kushner in his book "When Bad Things Happen to Good People" describes "Schadenfreude" as a universal, even wholesome reaction that cannot be helped. "There is a German psychological term, "Schadenfreude", which refers to the embarrassing reaction of relief we feel when something bad happens to someone title: Danke Schoen text: Low German dialects commonly encountered in the United States, such as Pennsylvania German or Yiddish, the word "schön" rhymes with the English words "pain" and "explain". Standard German "Danke schön" would be translated into Pennsylvania German as "danki schee" () or "dank scheene" (). Similarly, it would be translated into , (, ). The German letter "ö" can also be written using the older typography "oe" (schön = schoen) – of which the umlauted O is a contraction – when umlauts are unavailable or not readily accessible. Milt Gabler, the author of the English lyrics of the song, was the title: Pleasure text: Pleasure Pleasure is a broad class of mental states that humans and other animals experience as positive, enjoyable, or worth seeking. It includes more specific mental states such as happiness, entertainment, enjoyment, ecstasy, and euphoria. The early psychological concept of pleasure, the pleasure principle, describes it as a positive feedback mechanism that motivates the organism to recreate the situation it has just found pleasurable, and to avoid past situations that caused pain. The experience of pleasure is subjective and different individuals experience different kinds and amounts of pleasure in the same situation. Many pleasurable experiences are associated with satisfying basic