"Directly after copulation the devil's laughter is heard" - Schopenhauer

http://thephilosophersmail.com/relationships/the-great-philosophers-arthur-schopenhauer/

Full credit to /u/idiocyofman whose post here : https://www.reddit.com/r/MGTOW/comments/4ysr89, led me to Google up the quote and led me to this article.

Some excerpts:

Schopenhauer gave a name to a force within us which he felt invariably had precedence over reason, a force powerful enough to distort all of reason’s plans and judgements, and which he termed the will-to-life (Wille zum Leben) – defined as an inherent drive within human beings to stay alive and to have children.

Of course, we rarely think of future children when we are asking someone for their phone number. But in Schopenhauer’s view, this is simply because the intellect “remains much excluded from the real resolutions and secret decisions of its own will.” An exclusion which explains how we may consciously feel nothing more than an intense desire to see someone again, while unconsciously being driven by a force aiming at the reproduction of the next generation.

Why should such deception even be necessary? Because, for Schopenhauer, we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

Unfortunately, the theory of attraction led Schopenhauer to a conclusion so bleak, it may be best if engaged readers left the next few paragraphs unread in order not to have to rethink their plans; namely, that a person who is highly suitable for our child is almost never (though we cannot realise it at the time because we have been blindfolded by the will-to-life) very suitable for us.

The will-to-life’s ability to further its own ends rather than our happiness may, Schopenhauer’s theory implies, be sensed with particular clarity in the lassitude and strong desire to spend a few minutes alone in the kitchen that frequently befalls people immediately after making love. “Has it not been observed how illico post coitum cachinnus auditur Diaboli? Directly after copulation the devil’s laughter is heard”.

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