"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Psychological Observations
German philosopher and author Arthur Schopenhauer died #OTD in 1860.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer
Books by Arthur Schopenhauer at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3648