19: Arthur Schopenhauer, part 2: The Great Pessimist
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The Power of the Mind and the Consciousness of the Nature
We relinquish the ordinary way of considering things and cease to follow under the guidance of the principle of sufficient reason. We no longer consider the where, the when, the why and the whither in things, but simply and solely the what. Whether it be a landscape, a tree, a rock, a crag, a building or anything else, we lose ourselves entirely in this object. So that it is as though the object alone existed without any one to perceive it. And thus we are no longer able to separate the perceiver from the perception,. The two have become one, since the entire consciousness is filled and occupied by a single image of perception.
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