Blind and Lame

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The quote reminded me of playing chicken in pools during summer break which require the teams of two to shove the top player off the bottom player’s shoulders. Which then brought back memories of playing Marco Polo and running around the pool before getting called out by “Fish out of water!”. I guess my point is that warm weather and pools and breaking pool rules are fun things to do at any age.

About the author

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 – 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher and writer. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will. Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant, Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.