Yet there is strong evidence that our lives are just infinitesimal squiggles in the vast expanse of space and time. This may be tough to take, but the truth often is. Page 58 I interpret Schopenhauer's main point as being that our existence has no absolute value. To explain what this means I willfocus on the main concepts in that claim. To have value a thing must be more important or significant than other things.
Value is a matter of degree.
If everything were as valuable as everything else, then there would be no value. Suppose youfind a coin collection you used to keep when young. You sort through the coins and find that many of them are very common and so have no special value. But then you come across one coin that is very rare. Compared to the other coins, this one is very valuable.