The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3) — Schopenhauer — John Shaqi
The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 2 of 3)
Schopenhauer · en
(17) Velocity is, in (17) Velocity is, in (17) The magnitude
equal spaces, in equal times, in of the motion, the
inverse proportion direct proportion to velocity being
to the time. the space. equal, is in direct
geometrical
proportion to the
matter (mass).
(18) Time is not (18) Space is (18) Matter as such
measurable directly measurable directly (mass) is
through itself, but through itself, and measurable, _i.e._,
only indirectly indirectly through determinable as
through motion, motion, which is in regards its quantity
which is in space time and space only indirectly,
and time together: together; hence, for only through the
thus the motion of example, an hour’s amount of the motion
the sun and of the journey, and the which it receives
clock measure time. distance of the and imparts when it
fixed stars is repelled or
expressed as the attracted.
travelling of light
for so many years.
(19) Time is (19) Space is (19) Matter is
omnipresent. Every eternal. Every part absolute. That is,
part of time is of it exists always. it neither comes
everywhere, _i.e._, into being nor
in all space, at passes away, and
once. thus its quantity
can neither be
increased nor
diminished.
(20) In time taken (20) In space taken (20, 21) Matter
by itself everything by itself everything unites the ceaseless
would be in would be flight of time with
succession. simultaneous. the rigid immobility
of space; therefore
it is the permanent
substance of the
changing accidents.
Causality determines
this change for
every place at every
time, and thereby
combines time and
space, and
constitutes the
whole nature of
matter.
(21) Time makes the (21) Space makes the