Arthur Schopenhauer — "If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason, would the huma…"

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason, would the human race exist? Would not everyone rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to place it in such a position where it must struggle against everything?
Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer Modern · Pessimist philosophy

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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. II, Chapter 46, 'On the Vanity and Suffering of Life'

Date: 1844

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