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Schopenhauer, Arthur - The World as Will and Idea - Opposite to sublime
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The World as Will and Idea – Arthur Schopenhauer
Since antitheses are mutually illuminating, this may be the right time for me to say that the proper opposite of the sublime is something which would not at first glance, be recognised as such; the charming or attractive. But by this, I understand something which stimulates the will by holding out to it directly its indulgence, its gratification