You scrolled for forty minutes last night. You know this because your phone told you so, in that passive aggressive weekly report it sends like a concerned parent. And what did you gain? A vague sense that everyone is on vacation, everyone is in love, and everyone has better abs than you. This is not […]
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Arthur Schopenhauer spent most of his life being ignored. He published his masterwork, The World as Will and Representation, at age thirty. It sold almost nothing. He lectured at the University of Berlin, scheduling his classes to compete directly with Hegel, the most famous philosopher in Germany. Students chose Hegel. Schopenhauer lectured to empty rooms.
There’s a curious paradox at the heart of human intelligence: the very capacity that should liberate us from suffering often becomes its most reliable generator. Arthur Schopenhauer, the 19th-century German philosopher who made pessimism intellectually respectable, spent considerable energy exploring why smart people seem to have drawn the short straw in life’s happiness lottery. His
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