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| 21373 | We become objective when we detach ourselves from the world |
| Full Idea: We apprehend the world purely objectively, only when we no longer know that we belong to it. | |||
| From: Christopher Janaway (Schopenhauer [1994], II:368), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 6 'Objectivity' | |||
| A reaction: Since we are not actually detached from the world, that makes objective thought an act of imagination. And none the worse for that, I would say, since philosophers don't seem to understand the central epistemological importance of imagination. |