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Quotation from The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer
“the thread of memory is broken, the continuity of its connection destroyed, and no uniformly connected recollection of the past is possible”
The World as Will and Representation, Third Book, §36, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886)
Schopenhauer locates the essence of madness not in perception or reasoning but in memory, with gaps filled by fictions.
Citation: "the thread of memory is broken, the continuity of its connection destroyed, and no uniformly connected recollection of the past is possible" — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Third Book, §36, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp (1883-1886). (id the-world-as-will-and-representation-q6)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
