Sermonette V – Schopenhauer

A reading taken from the works of Arthur Schopenhauer:

A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten.

– Arthur Schopenhauer.
On the Suffering of the World
(London: Penguin, 2004), p. 4.