January 21, 2009
In your 20’s and 30’s, you think there is some big secret that is being withheld from you. But there is no secret. No one has a clue what they’re doing or why. By 44 you are distressed to discover there is no secret and that life’s glittering prizes are made of tin. But then comes the getting of wisdom. When you get older, you’ve learned to accept yourself. In Schopenhauerian terms, will is replaced by art, acceptance and a sense of the universal. You learn to enjoy the comedy of life’s struggle and happily take your place in this huge and leaking lifeboat. – Stephen Moss, Guardian Weekly, 08.02.08.
(Arthur Schopenhauer’s aesthetics flow from his doctrine of the primacy of the Will as the thing in itself, the ground of life and all being; and from his judgment that the Will is evil. Schopenhauer held that art offers a way for people to temporarily escape servitude to the Will, and from the suffering that such servitude entails.)
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