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Schopenhauer's Despair



Schopenhauer's Mom: "Hey Arthur, whatcha working on? " Schopenhauer: "I am demonstrating beyond doubt that life is not worth living." Schopenhauer: "Life is suffering, and it can be nothing else! Existence is a futile striving and happiness is an illusion." Schopenhauer's Mom: "Okay, well it sounds like you need to eat. I made you some sandwiches." Schopenhauer: "I don't need to eat, i need to find a reason to live!" Schopenhauer's Mom: "Okay, but whenever you start writing about how life is despair, it usually means you are hungry." Schopenhauer: "I am not hungry, mother! I am just the only philosopher with the courage to gaze into the abyss." Schopenhauer's Mom: "Whatever you say. I'll just leave these here just in case though..." Schopenhauer: "Fine, whatever! Just leave me to my despair." Description: "10 minutes later, she returns" Schopenhauer's Mom: "Hey, what are you working on now?" Schopenhauer: "I'm writing about the sublime beauty of music, and how beauty can create joy deeper than any base pleasure!" Schopenhauer's Mom: "Feeling better then?" Schopenhauer: "No, uh...life is still suffering and all. I just happened to have moved on to a different topic... for non-sandwich reasons."
Nietzsche said: "if someone cannot cope with his 'psychic suffering', this does not stem from his psyche, to speak crudely; more probably from his stomach", and sometimes I feel like he was talking about Schopenhauer.
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