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| Joelypoely 10/11/18 5:42:32 PM #105: | It is really incredible how meaningless and insignificant when seen from without, and how dull and senseless when felt from within, is the course of life of the great majority of men. It is weary longing and worrying, a dreamlike staggering through the four ages from life to death, accompanied by a series of trivial thoughtsEvery individual, every human apparition and its course of life, is only one more short dream of the endless spirit of nature. Vanity finds expression in the whole way in which things exist; in the infinite nature of time and space, as opposed to the finite nature of the individual in both; in the ever-passing present moment as the only mode of actual existence; in the interdependence and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without ever being; in constant wishing and never being satisfied; in the long battle which forms the history of life, where every effort is checked by difficulties, and stopped until they are overcome. Arthur Schopenhauer --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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