When you like someone but you don't know whether to believe platonic love or Schopenhauer?

According to Schopenhauer , love is a cruel trick of nature. "Love is basically just a trick of nature for the survival of the species," he says. That is, we think we fell in love, but the reality is that we are continuing the game of nature for reproduction and survival of the generation. From Schopenhauer's point of view, love is nothing but pain and deception; An instinct that forces us to pursue something that does not ultimately end in our happiness.

But Platonic love is a journey from the body to the soul, a search to find beauty and truth beyond matter. This love is neither limited to material pleasures nor instinct; Rather, it is a means of reaching spiritual heights and connecting with the world of ideas, where pure beauty reigns.

Schopenhauer sees love as a prison of instinct, but Plato sees love as wings to fly to the world of ideas.