lukeprog comments on Rationality Quotes October 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lukeprog 10 October 2012 05:24:05AM 4 points [-]

Everyone takes the limits of [their] own vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Comment author: bbleeker 11 October 2012 08:35:17AM 1 point [-]

That made me think of this:

The world stands out on either side
No wider than the heart is wide;
Above the world is stretched the sky -
No higher than the soul is high.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Comment author: Kawoomba 10 October 2012 05:31:46AM 1 point [-]

That follows in a fairly straightforward way from his central theme in his dissertation, The World as Will and Representation, which is that the world is, well, the title spoiled it.