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“Art is reduced to mere amusement, and governed by empty concepts.”

For Schopenhauer, like his great predecessor Immanuel Kant, there is a fundamental distinction between the world as it appears (phenomena) and the world as it truly is (noumena).

All appearances are mere physical manifestations of an underlying reality, which for Schopenhauer is the WILL.