I like how Schopenhauer depicts the intellect as a parasite of the organism. In many cases, it tortures the organism and makes it ill, and, it can even cause it to self-destruct.
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He writes that when the intellect becomes dominant over the will of the organism, rather than the other way around, that's when serious psychological disorders begin
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