Many of us fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends us scurrying right back to the game.
Arthur Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.
Every human life is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Predominantly Psychology but one's mind does wander...Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
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Ennui
Many fear boredom – even the faintest whiff of boredom sends them scurrying right back to the game.
Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom.
Every human life, he said, is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.
~ Yalom
Schopenhauer said that willing itself is never fulfilled - as soon as one wish is satisfied, another appears. Though there may be some very brief respite, some fleeting period of satiation, it is immediately transformed into boredom. Every human life, he said, is tossed backward and forward between pain and boredom.
~ Yalom
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