Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. "What!" he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, "looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,"—"You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?"

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Young Schopenhauer, a zealous and thorough-going Kantian, tried to explain that light would cease to exist along with the seeing eye. "What!" he said, according to Schopenhauer's own report, "looking at him with his Jove-like eyes,"—"You should rather say that you would not exist if the light could not see you?"" in the context of "As quoted by Friedrich Jodl, "Goethe and Kant," The Monist (1901) f. Edward C. Hegeler, ed. Paul Carus, Vol. 11, p. 264. As translated from Professor Jodl's MS. by W. H. Carruth, of the University of Kansas." to mean that wisdom is timeless.