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In the origin, the former may be considered more what I have called phenomenal it is the notion of knowledge as ACQUAINTANCE or familiarity with what is known; which notion is perhaps more akin to the phenomenal bodily communication, and is less purely intellectual than the other; it is the kind of knowledge which we have of a thing by the presentation to the senses or the representation of it in picture or type, a Vorstellung.
Joachim und Anna weihen ihre Tochter Maria im Tempel. Die Vorstellung der Jungfrau im Tempel. Nov. 21. In the interval between the birth of Mary and her consecration in the temple, there is no incident which I can remember as being important or popular as a subject of art.
Let me here refer to what I have said elsewhere on the soothing effect of the knowledge that all things are inevitable and a product of necessity. Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Bk. If a man is steeped in the knowledge of this truth, he will, first of all, do what he can, and then readily endure what he must.
If this is so, it offers another instance of the crass optimism of these religions, denouncing suicide to escape being denounced by it. Schopenhauer refers to Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. i., § 69, where the reader may find the same argument stated at somewhat greater length.
Is it not to represent to oneself the objects as no longer in space, i.e. to imagine the space as empty, as cleared of the objects? It means something in this case to speak of a Vorstellung, or representation. We can call before our minds the empty space. But if we are to think of space as nonexistent, what shall we call before our minds?
Then again, I may write nothing but a sort of romance, the romance of a whole life, which may turn out to be something like a modern philosophy. In that case, I should begin where Schopenhauer left off. I mean the sentence that is always going around in my head from Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: 'Something lurks behind our existence which is inaccessible to us until we shake off the world."
Perhaps it would be more correct to describe Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung as his main thesis, and his other treatises as merely corollary to it.
The intellect like the brain, which attains its full size in the seventh year, is developed early, though it takes time to mature; and it explores the whole world of its surroundings in its constant search for nutriment: it is then that existence is in itself an ever fresh delight, and all things sparkle with the charm of novelty. Schopenhauer refers to Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, Bk.
Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, 4th Edition. Bk. [Footnote: 2: Cf. loc: cit: p. 275. Sleep is a morsel of death borrowed to keep up and renew the part of life which is exhausted by the day le sommeil est un emprunt fait
For, by foolishly confounding Nature's demands with lust, we insist upon restraint upon her." It is noteworthy that, from the first, and equally among men of religion, men of science, and men of letters, the mystery of this problem has peculiarly appealed to the French mind. Schopenhauer, Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. ii, pp. 608 et seq.
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