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Quotation from The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is starvation, voluntarily chosen on the ground of extreme asceticism”
The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §69, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886)
The one kind of self-chosen death Schopenhauer distinguishes from ordinary suicide, as the extreme of the denial of the will.
Citation: "It is starvation, voluntarily chosen on the ground of extreme asceticism" — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Fourth Book, §69, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886). (id the-world-as-will-and-representation-q13)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
