Studies In Pessimism The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer

But all this contributes to increase the measures of suffering in human life out of all proportion to its pleasures; and the pains of life are made much worse for man by the fact that death is something very real to him. The brute flies from death instinctively without really knowing what it is, and therefore without ever contemplating it in the way natural to a man, who has this prospect always before his eyes. So that even if only a few brutes die a natural death, and most of them live only just long enough to transmit their species, and then, if not earlier, become the prey of some other animal.Saunders, T. Bailey is the author of 'Studies In Pessimism The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer', published 2004 under ISBN 9781419161292 and ISBN 1419161296.