The Shiver of beauty

In the book The Questions of Life, Fernando Savater quotes an important philosopher, Plato. Plato said that we are "forced to follow the teachings of two very demanding tutors: pleasure and pain." This is a very thoughtful idea, because it makes us think about that which deeply in ourselves influences in a powerful way the totality of humanity and its individuals like the sexual pleasures for instance. As we saw in other chapters, there are common factors which unify humanity; I believe the pleasure and pain are members of the most important factors. Humans say often that they like something when they feel good while having it or experiencing it. There are also some people who declare to like something because of the emotions or feelings they have like suffering and sorrow, being these not so wanted but yet seen in our society. It would be beneficial if everyone would ask themselves whichever they live with more pain or pleasure, regarding their experiences and the interpretation both physical and mental they had about them. In my own judgment I would say that I had and have always interpreted life's experiences with pleasure or with pain, but never without any of those. It is curious that humanity wants to settle down everything that is experienced in a way or another, but never a middle point where everything is neutral and is just something that is. Humanity appears to take everything personally and compare it to human emotions, transforming the outside reality into an inner feeling.