...appearance is just as infinitely small a part of my true inner nature as I am of the world." But the I or ego is the dark point in consciousness, just as on...precise point of entry of the optic nerve is blind, the brain itself is wholly insensible, the body of the sun is dark, and the eye sees everything except...

...not into the Inner Self." As far as this also Schopenhauer has seen to the bottom; he says: "The eye is the dark point in consciousness, just as on the...precise point of entry of the optic nerve is blind, the brain itself is wholly insensible, the body of the sun itself is dark, and the eye sees everything...

...image Wittgenstein would later echo. He compared the "I" to the "dark point in consciousness": "lust as on the retina the precise point of entry of the optic nerve is blind . . . the eye sees everything except itself."24 As a result, argues Wittgenstein, the usual and unrigorous...

...experience, the bodily individual. But really this identification is quite unwarranted since 'the I or ego is the dark point in consciousness, just as on...precise point of entry of the optic nerve is blind' (WR II: 49 1 ). Much influenced by Schopenhauer's reflections, Wittgenstein puts the point by saying...