“For at the moment when, torn from the will, we have given ourselves up to pure, will-less knowing, we have stepped into another world, so to speak, where everything that moves our will, and thus violently agitates us, no longer exists. This liberation of knowledge lifts us as wholly and completely above all this as do sleep and dreams.”
-The Essential Schopenhauer, “The Artist and the Sublime”
This passage speaks of the ability of art (music) to almost magically transport us from a place of knowing to a will-less knowing. This particular song, “Simple Things” by Elisabeth Withers has the ability to take my mind from whatever the situation is to a place of evaluation and fond memories of what really matters. All of this is done without my permission or knowledge or “will-less knowing”.
Miguel Palmer
-The Essential Schopenhauer, “The Artist and the Sublime”
This passage speaks of the ability of art (music) to almost magically transport us from a place of knowing to a will-less knowing. This particular song, “Simple Things” by Elisabeth Withers has the ability to take my mind from whatever the situation is to a place of evaluation and fond memories of what really matters. All of this is done without my permission or knowledge or “will-less knowing”.
Miguel Palmer
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