I believe the mind is the creator of the world, and is ever creating; - that at last Matter is dead Mind; that mind makes the senses it sees with; that the genius of man is a continuation of the power that made him and that has not done making him.
I believe the mind is the creator of the world, and is ever creating; - that at last Matter is dead Mind; that mind makes the senses it sees with; that the genius of man is a continuation of the power that made him and that has not done making him.
There is a circle here, and a mystery. My body is matter and external. My brain is part of my body, and external — an object among objects. Can my brain then think, and recognize itself? Nietzsche shows the fallacy of this argument. He asks “Is the world the creation of the senses?” Then the eye must be such a creation. Can the eye be a creation of the eye? “Whatever the world is, it is NOT the creation of the senses.” Whatever thought is, it is NOT the creation of the brain.
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