Best of All Possible Worlds

By: Arthur Schopenhauer

“Life is deeply steeped in suffering, and cannot escape from it; our entrance into it takes place amid tears, at bottom its course is always tragic, and its end is even more so.”

—Schopenhauer

We have been investigating the primary, elementary characteristics of human life at the most universal level, with a view towards convincing ourselves a priori that human life is dispositionally incapable of true happiness, that it is essentially a multifaceted suffering and a thoroughly disastrous condition.