Arthur Schopenhauer (1788

Time and Space - Between the Ears

Time is already a factor, the shift to choice, opposed to a free-for-all, happens at about six months of age (in human infants), sovereign over the mammalian neurons, this firmware upgrade is the

Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)

Will to Representation

Schopenhauer’s will defined the ego. Representation is Individuation and an agitating möbius between objectivity and subjectivity. A thrownness into Being and Consciousness. Breaking these circles of phenomena doesn’t necessarily mean transcendence.

Prosopopoeia

Figures of Speech

An Autobiographical Prosopopoeia Listed in order of appearance in the planksip® Book of Quotes. Friedrich Nietzsche, William Wordsworth, Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Satre, Umberto Eco, John Ruskin, Gabriel García Márquez, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bill Maher,

Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)

What you are saying is ridiculous, but I will defend to the death what is obliviously true.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher)

The Virtuosa and Her Muses

From Schopenhauer to Einstein and back to Leopardi, science and art have provided suitors refuge from the crudity of the utilitarian. In this Einsteinian comparison, dreariness fights an uphill battle against the megalomania