“We are like a man who goes round a castle seeking in vain for an entrance, and sometimes sketching the facades. If we can ferret out the ultimate nature of our own minds we shall perhaps have the key to the external world.” MindIdealismWillIdeaConceptSchopenhauerUniversal Idea Book:The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Schopenhauer’s will can be “equated” to the categorical imperative of the idea (reason), which is the will. Without the will, the idea is dead. If the idea is the essence of the Being, then the will is its manifestation as existence. Only through the categorical will of the essence (ultimate universal idea) is existence possible.” ReasonDejan StojanovicWillAbsoluteBeingIdeaNonbeingUniversal IdeaCategorical WillUniversal Mid Book:ABSOLUTE Source: ABSOLUTE