一群豪猪在寒冷的冬天相互接近,为的是通过彼此的体温取暖以避免冻死,可是很快它们就被彼此身上的硬刺刺痛,相互分开。当取暖的需要又使它们靠近时,重复了第一次的痛苦,以至于它们在两种痛苦之间转来转去,直至它们发现一种适当的距离使它们能够保持互相取暖而又不被刺伤为止。根据叔本华的这一比喻的延伸是人与人之间也应有一定的距离,即 A group of Porcupines came close to each other in the cold winter in order to keep each other’s body temperature from freezing to death, but soon they were stabbed and separated from each other by the needles. When the need of heating again brings them closer, the first pain is repeated so that they turn around between the two afflictions until they find a suitable distance that keeps them warm to each other Stabbed so far. According to Schopenhauer’s extension of this analogy is that there should be a certain distance between people, that is