If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world. - Arthur Schopenhauer

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If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

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About Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher, most famous for his work The World as Will and Representation (1819).

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