Full Idea
Human life must be some kind of mistake. ...Boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence.
Gist of Idea
Human life is a mistake, shown by boredom, which is direct awareness of the fact
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], XI:146)
A Reaction
I think it is a good advertisement for existentialism that it makes something more out of boredom than Schopenhauer does.
Book Reference
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.53
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