諷刺的角度是優越的哲學
但叔本華是不一致的，甚至是自相矛盾的。一方面，他聲稱，作為一個真正的悲觀主義者，人類的努力或生命本身是沒有價值的。總之，只有幻覺和痛苦。另一方面，叔本華是個虛榮的人。他渴望他的哲學作品能得到公眾和學術界的認可。
來自同行評審的 Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: "「1820年，叔本華獲准到柏林大學講學。他故意厚顏無恥地將自己的講課時間安排在與黑格爾（G.W.F. Hegel）相同的時間，而黑格爾是該校最傑出的教師。只有極少數的學生聆聽叔本華的演講，而黑格爾的演講則有超過 200 名學生聆聽...... 接下來的十年可能是叔本華最黑暗、最沒有成果的時期。他不僅因為自己開創性的哲學沒有得到認同而痛苦，還飽受各種疾病的折磨... 他在 1851 年出版了一本以一般大眾為對象的通俗哲學文章和警句著作，書名是《Parerga and Paralipomena》... 這部作品是他最不可能出版的著作，卻為他贏得了名聲，而且是來自最不可能的地方：英國學者 John Oxenford 寫的一篇評論... 這篇評論激起了德國讀者的興趣，叔本華一夜成名。叔本華的餘生都陶醉在這來之不易、姍姍來遲的聲譽中，並於1860年逝世"。
如果一切都毫無價值，生命只剩下痛苦，為什麼還要努力呢？為什麼不直接去自殺呢？這樣所有的痛苦就都結束了。
叔本華提出了一個迷宮般的推理，說明為什麼自殺會是「愚蠢的錯誤」。這個推理太令人費解了，不像是一個簡單的道理。或者，正如一篇 modern philosophical thesis 作者：Cameron Smith（不是高爾夫球手）： 「我們可能會問，為什麼自殺是個壞主意？即使人們無法透過自殺來解決痛苦這個普遍性的問題，人們也可能會反駁說，根據定義，普遍性的問題是無法解決的，因此自殺無法解決痛苦這個普遍性問題的事實，並不能成為不自殺的理由......。然而，我們也許會問，為什麼叔本華深信獲得救贖比死亡更好？畢竟，只有當救贖在某種程度上比自殺死亡更好時，死亡妨礙人獲得救贖的事實，才是不自殺的好理由。不過，雖然根據某些宗教形而上學傳統，自殺者的後世與聖人的後世有明顯的不同，但根據叔本華的哲學，卻很難看出有什麼不同。
無論如何，我知道比悲觀主義更好的東西。那就是作為哲學的諷刺。
以諷刺的角度來回答悲觀主義者： 是的，所有的生命都是失敗的；死亡，通常是在痛苦中，無法避免；是的，也許，在死亡之前，生命多半是痛苦的。但是，讓我們暫時忘記悲觀的真相，來點性愛吧。是的，歸根結柢，每個人的生命都是失敗的。那又何必呢？至少性愛讓人感覺很好。這一點我們非常肯定。別管那些悲觀主義者了
公元前 399 年，Sokrates 因喝下一杯毒芹而被判死刑。Sokrates 並沒有大驚小怪。他的遺言並不是什麼「我為人類的未來而死！」或「真理永存！」之類的話。他的遺言是對他的一個弟子說的 克里提奧 蘇克拉底說 「克里托，我們欠阿斯克勒庇俄斯一只公雞 一定要還 別忘了」
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