The World as Will and
Idea.
" . . .
Other cases of wrong are invariably attributable to my compelling another individual to
serve my will instead of his own . . . On the path of violence I attain this end through
physical causation, but on the path of cunning I achieve it by means of motivation, i.e.,
by means of causality that has passed through knowledge. For I present to the other
man's will fictitious motives, on account of which he follows my will while believing that
he is following his own . . . and this is the lie."1
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1 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860). The
World as Will and Idea (1819). Abridged in one vol. Edited by David Berman.
Translated by Jill Berman. J.M. Dent, 1995. London, England: J.M. Dent, Orion Publishing
Group, at 214.
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