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Schopenhauer · 1818
Canon spine row 87. Schopenhauer — The World as Will and Representation, Parerga and Paralipomena. Era: 1818 / 1851. Lang: German.
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What this book knows
The world is blind, striving Will; suffering is its essence, and only aesthetic contemplation or ascetic renunciation offers release.
desire
Every will is a will towards something — this question rests on the confusion of the thing-in-itself with the manifestation.
WAWRP-RC-190Every natural cause is only an occasional cause; the one indivisible will is the in-itself of all things.
WAWRP-RC-162Every action of my body is the manifestation of an act of will in which my character expresses itself under given motives.
WAWRP-RC-129mind-and-cognition
Genius consists in knowing the Ideas of things independently of the principle of sufficient reason, being the pure subject of knowledge.
WAWRP-RC-222Perception is not passive reception — colour attributed to outward objects is merely an inner function of the eye.
WAWRP-RC-031mortality
Access to the Upanishads is in my eyes the greatest advantage this century enjoys over previous ones.
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