An idea from The World as Will and Representation

Time, space and cause and effect are not things you find out there. They are the shape your mind gives to everything it takes in, an idea taken from Kant. Even seeing is thinking, since your brain works back from light in the eye to the thing that sent it.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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