Schopenhauer says, "that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life?"

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Schopenhauer argues that the nature of human desires and the resultant state of boredom after their satisfaction points to existence having no inherent value.

Schopenhauer Says, "That Man Is a Compound of Needs and Necessities