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1/6 In his 1819 masterwork, The World as Will and Representation, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer laments: “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
The pain Schopenhauer is here referring to is
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1/6 In his 1819 masterwork, The World as Will and Representation, German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer laments: “Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
The pain Schopenhauer is here referring to is
2/6 that of unfulfilled desire — a longing for something we lack. According to Schopenhauer, this longing sets life’s dreary pendulum in motion. If only we could get that thing, we urge ourselves, we’d be content.
So we set about pursuing that thing and, at long last, fighting
So we set about pursuing that thing and, at long last, fighting
3/6 spells of uncertainty and stress and misery— pain— we capture it. The thing is ours! But, unfortunately, the thing we set our hopes on doesn’t bring us the satisfaction we expected. In fact, it’s an utter anticlimax. This anticlimactic feeling swings the pendulum to boredom.
