Prash's review
The World As Will and Representation: In Two Volumes, Vol. 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
a book to be digested. in the preface the author "boasts" that he couldn't convey his solitary idea in fewer words. i was forever looking for a superfluous word or sentence while reading the book to point out . could find none so far. the style is beautiful and majestic. he is a seer. for example he repudiates the concept of an "ether" almost a century before it was actually disproved by the michelson-morley experiment. he also tells of the impossibility of a "theory of everything" to which we seem to be reconciling ourselves now. have completed reading only a third of it. the prospect of further riches is enticing.
Makes me want to go back to it again, I must however read more mediocrity to appreciate this better.
correct. he really is nietzsche's guru. sample this "Spinoza says that if a stone projected through the air had consciousness, it would imagine it was flying of its own will. I add merely that the stone would be right."
