I wonder if Kurt has read Schopenhauer, or is just a kindr..

I was reading late last night and came across this:



1788 Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Dazing. In later years, he looks back
on the event with regret: 'We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing
episode in the blissful response of nothingness.' 'Human existence must be
a kind of error,' he specifies, 'it may be said of it, "It is bad today and
every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens"





The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain Botton, p.171

somebody wrote:
> I was reading late last night and came across this:
>
>
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> 1788 Arthur Schopenhauer is born in Dazing. In later years, he looks back
> on the event with regret: 'We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing
> episode in the blissful response of nothingness.' 'Human existence must be
> a kind of error,' he specifies, 'it may be said of it, "It is bad today and
> every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens"
>
> The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain Botton, p.171

Those ideas are very common. I've even thought them myself. You don't
need to read Schopenhauer to think them.

Alric Knebel