#simplest life

[the-ephemeral-ethereal]

The fundamental idea of cynicism is that life in its simplest and most naked form, with the hardships that naturally being to it, is the most tolerable, and is therefore to be chosen. For every aid, comfort, enjoyment, and pleasure by which people would like to make life more agreeable, would produce only new worries and cares greater than those that originally belong to it.

from The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2 by Arthur Schopenhauer