How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. Arthur Schopenhauer
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The quote speaks about how people take life so seriously and worry so much about the future. Human consciousness is a strange thing, a strange thing that each human possesses, a strange thing that allows us to think and feel and truly understand the world around us. Despite the fact that we have doubts and fears, we continue to live our lives in the present moment.

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