Q0068

Arthur Schopenhauer

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English

The world is my representation.
Thinker Arthur Schopenhauer
School Voluntarism
Source The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
Theme Knowledge
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Source context

This English passage is associated with The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, within the tradition of Voluntarism. The wording below is a verified rendering prepared for careful reading rather than a claim of unique translation authority.

A short reading

Read in the register of knowledge, the sentence asks the reader to test an assumption rather than to collect a slogan. In Arthur Schopenhauer's wider work, similar claims are usually offered as prompts for judgment: what would have to be true for the sentence to hold, and what would follow if it did?

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Chicago: Arthur Schopenhauer. “The world is my representation..” Philosophy Blind Box. Accessed 2026. https://www.philosophydef.com/quotes/q0068.

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  1. Compassion is the basis of morality.
  2. Reading means thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own.
  3. Solitude is the lot of all outstanding minds.
  4. All life is suffering.
  5. What a person is contributes more to his happiness than what he has.

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More on knowledge

  1. What I do not know, I do not claim to know.
  2. No one errs willingly.
  3. What then is time? If no one asks me, I know; if I wish to explain it to one who asks, I do not know.
  4. What do I know?
  5. Once in a lifetime, everything must be doubted.

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