![]() Hence, according to Schopenhauer, the vast majority of people set themselves up for a lot of pain, pursuing the wrong things.īy and large, we tend to make poor life choices because the will-to-live controls us, and we lack the strength and intelligence to operate otherwise. Like any other species, humans are motivated by a universal force called will, or will-to-live, which usually dictates our behavior, as most of us are utterly and unknowingly enslaved by it. ![]() And he also claimed that our lives are not inherently enjoyable but miserable, as our pain vastly outweighs our pleasure. Human existence, as a whole, he compared to a prison sentence. He saw life on Earth as a cosmic disaster and felt that the universe would have been a better place without it. Arthur Schopenhauer is infamous for his pessimistic outlook on life. ![]()
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