Topic awaiting preservation: Is Shakespear right? (Page 1 of 1)

Shakespear said "things are neither good nor bad tis thinking that makes them so" if this is correct then in order to obtain a correct perspective one must case to think. How can one acheive this state while staying alive? Will we all be off on everything till the afterlife or should we operate like robots, and somehow obtain happiness?

Well, I think the point of the quote is that there *is* no correct perspective. Through thinking, we label things good or bad. If there were no living things to think, then there would be no labels of what's good or bad. However, regardless of whether there are people to think, "good" and "bad" don't really *exist*, they're just products of our imagination. I think that's the point of the quote.

It's sort of similar to the falling tree in the forest thing....

If the world dies out and there's no one here to care, is it a bad thing?



GrythusDraconis
Prince of Gold - Lord of Dragons

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