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"I'm sick of seeing Schopenhauer framed as some loser incel by pseudo intellectual types online. If you've yet to engaged in his philosophy, I highly recommend it, particularly if you're enamoured by RS-adjacent writers like Houellebecq. He was a grouchy guy, but people don't seem to appreciate that "
"The animal's life consequently contains less suffering but also less pleasure than the human's, the direct reason being that on the one hand it is free from care and anxiety and the torments that attend them, but on the other is without hope and therefore has no share in that anticipation of a happy"
"From the perspective of Schopenhauer (and Houellebecq) feelings of alienation are not the result of some current political moment, but the result of having an individuated consciousness. This is best encapsulated by Schopenhauer's 'porcupine dilemma': One cold winter's day, a number of porcupines hu"
"I guess you could argue for him from another angle though, that society mollifies men with corporeal pleasures such as sex in order to make them complacent and without that opiate they see the farcical nature of life in more stark relief. Perhaps this was also the case for Schopenhauer."
"Live for art and die for art. Schopenhauer was based"
"The animal's life consequently contains less suffering but also less pleasure than the human's, the direct reason being that on the one hand it is free from care and anxiety and the torments that attend them, but on the other is without hope and therefore has no share in that anticipation of a happy"
"When you look more closely at Houellebecq's influences, he's heavily influenced by Schopenhauer. He even wrote a book 'In the Presence of Schopenhauer' about this indebtedness."