Dominique’s Reviews > A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works > Status Update

"After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile [...] I resolved, at last, to try to find out [...] whether there was something which, once found and acquired, would continuously give me the greatest joy to eternity" (p. 13)

Every day I am more convinced that philosophy is not born out of wonder but suffering. This sounds like a coping method to me.