The World as Will and Idea, Volumen1Trübner & Company, 1883 - 532 páginas |
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abstract concepts abstract knowledge according action æsthetic allegory animal appears arises assertion attained beautiful become belongs body brutes called cause certainly chemism complete comprehended connection consciousness consequently contemplation death denial determined directly distinct doctrine dogmas effect egoism entirely essential ethical etiology Euclid everything example existence explained exposition expression fact Fichte follows forces of nature genius grades hand human ideas of perception immediate individual inmost inner nature Kant kind known Laocoon law of causality ledge live manifestation matter means merely motives necessity never nihil negativum object objectification original pain pheno phenomena phenomenon philosophy Plato pleasure possible present presupposes principium individuationis principle of sufficient priori proceeds pure recognise referred regard relation remains satisfaction significance sophisms space species sphere Spinoza Stoicism striving suffering sufficient reason syllogisms teleology thing-in-itself thought tion true truth understanding Vedas vidual whole world as idea wrong
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Página 234 - Are not the mountains, waves, and skies, a part Of me and of my soul, as I of them?
Página 247 - Great wits to madness sure are near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Página 268 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger . To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 76 - The cause of laughter in every case is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real objects which have been thought through it in some relation, and laughter itself is just the expression of this incongruity.
Página 418 - ... bent upon some jest, scenes of a comedy. But the neversatisfied wishes, the frustrated efforts, the hopes unmercifully crushed by fate, the unfortunate errors of the whole life, with increasing suffering and death at the end, are always a tragedy. Thus, as if fate would add derision to the misery of our existence, our life must contain all the woes of tragedy, and yet we cannot even assert the dignity of tragic characters, but in the broad detail of life must inevitably be the foolish characters...
Página 3 - THE world is my idea:" — this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.
Página 254 - Then all at once the peace which we were always seeking, but which always fled from us on the former path of the desires, comes to us of its own accord, and it is well with us. It is the painless state which Epicurus prized as the highest good and as the state of the gods; for we are for the moment set free from the miserable striving of the will; we keep the Sabbath of the penal servitude of willing; the wheel of Ixion stands still.
Página 516 - The sufferings which in the vehemence and ardour of his will he inflicts upon others are the measure of the suffering, the experience of which in his own person cannot break his will, and plainly lead it to the denial of itself. All true and pure love, on the other hand, and even all free justice, proceed from the penetration of the principium...
Página 406 - The striving after existence is what occupies all living things and maintains them in motion. But when existence is assured, then they know not what to do with it; thus the second thing that sets them in motion is the effort to get free from the burden of existence, to make it cease to be felt, "to kill time," ie, to escape from ennui. Accordingly we see that almost all men who are secure from want and care, now that at last they have thrown off all other burdens, become a burden to themselves...
Página 328 - The unspeakable pain, the wretchedness and misery of mankind, the triumph of wickedness, the scornful mastery of chance, and the irretrievable fall of the just and the innocent...