An idea from The World as Will and Representation

The nothing left when the will turns is nothing only for those still full of wanting, and words like Nirvana are refused as dodges. The Indian ideas throughout came secondhand: the Upanishads through a Latin version of a Persian version, Buddhism through early European reports.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

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