In the process of reading this book, Schopenhauer's metaphor often makes me laugh. Although this book was completed in the latter half of Schopenhauer's life, in this book, Schopenhauer often acts like a conceited child, expresses his enthusiastic support for his life style, and makes the best annotation for his personal life with his own philosophical thoughts. Give some very refreshing insights:
Pain and boredom are the two deadly enemies of happiness in life. Whenever people are far away from one, they are close to the other; A person's ability to feel pain is inversely proportional to his ability to feel boredom. A person's enthusiasm for interacting with others is directly proportional to his mediocrity of intelligence and poverty of thought. In this world, people either choose to be alone or vulgar, and there is no other choice.
Aristotle said that rational people pursue not happiness, but no pain. That is: all happiness, its essence is negative; And all the pain, its essence is indeed certain. For example, even if 9% of your daily life is smooth, you rarely feel the happiness brought by these smoothness, and even if there is, it is only fleeting; But as long as there is some slight pain, such as toothache and loss of a little money, this pain will always call on you and bring you a deep impression. Therefore, happiness is only an appearance, which is determined by human nature. People in the world pursue happiness, sensuality, lust and power, but they don't know that only pain is lasting. Therefore, instead of pursuing happiness, it is better to avoid pain.
The benefits of solitude, a person can enjoy himself from solitude only if he has rich perception and little dependence on others, and solitude is a necessary part for a genius. A person who can't stand and can't get happiness from solitude is poor in thought and intelligence, and is part of most vulgar people in this world. Think about the vulgar people you can avoid, and you will definitely enjoy the benefits of being alone.
Philosophers are pioneers in exploring human souls and pioneers in human ideological civilization. Their thoughts are often far ahead of their times and are not understood at that time, but the ultimate truth is truth, which will be re-recognized even after hundreds of years. Therefore, there is also a saying that outstanding figures who are praised by everyone in the contemporary era are often forgotten after death. Because geniuses are the torches and flags that lead mankind, and they are always ahead of most people!