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“Today it is bad, and day by day it will get worse―until at last the worst of all arrives.”
― On the Suffering of the World
― On the Suffering of the World
“Sociability belongs to the most dangerous, even destructive inclinations, since it brings us into contact with beings the great majority of whom are morally bad and intellectually dull or perverted.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
“Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.”
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
― The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”
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“I was gripped by the misery of life as Buddha was in his youth when he saw sickness, old age, pain and death. The truth … was that this world could not have been the work of an all-loving Being, but rather that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings; to this the data pointed, and the belief that it is so won the upper hand.”
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