An idea from The World as Will and Representation

Science can tell you that a stone falls, and how fast. It can’t tell you what the falling stone is on the inside. However far it goes, “we can never get at the inner nature of things from without”.

From The World as Will and Representation by Arthur Schopenhauer

Enjoy The Road is a library of ideas from books that lasted, in plain words. A new one every day, free to read.


The Sunday email

One email each Sunday morning: the week’s seven ideas, a question to think about, and a link to a story to read to a child.

Get the Sunday email