![]() The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (November 1819).But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher.Quotes Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. 1.3.8 Not yet placed by volume, chapter or section.1.3.2 On Philosophy in the Universities. ![]() 1.3.1 Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real.1.1 The World as Will and Representation (1819 1844 1859). ![]()
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