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Quotation from The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
“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”
The World as Will and Representation, First Book, §1, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886)
The famous opening of the work; 'idea' renders Vorstellung, now usually translated 'representation'.
Citation: "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" — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, First Book, §1, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886). (id the-world-as-will-and-representation-q1)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
