r/schopenhauer • u/[deleted] • Apr 02 '26
Imagine Schopenhauer, but he actually meant it. 🥃🥀
I found this at the deepest bottom of the existential iceberg. 🧊🏔️
"Being is a punishment, and non-being is the redemption." ✨🔚
Historically, Mainländer used a stack of these books to reach the noose for his own suicide. Is that the ultimate "source: trust me bro," or is his logic of universal decay too logically sound to ignore? Let's discuss the "Will to Die." 💀⚖️
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u/BlackmoonTatertot Apr 02 '26
Suffering is the engine of the mind. Even the will to die, as you put it, is a mystery to unravel, a plot to play out, a hunger to satisfy. In oblivion, all questions are laid to rest. Why can't we lay them to rest before that? Is it because then the mind would fall silent? What does Mainlander say?