system
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human
“Will is seen as the source of all suffering, since willing never brings contentment, but only further desire”

I saw this quote in a book about Nietzsche, it went on about Schopenhauer and what he believed in. This quote stuck on me and got me thinking... If people keep wanting and never get content, then when and why do they stop? Does this mean no people is truly happy?
gpt
From a buddhist perspective this might be seen as exactly right! They might say that desires and goals in the material world are only capable of bringing dissapointment. "Enlightenment" in this view might be achieving the mental state of not willing anything at all, being content simply with what exists l.