On Robert W Peabody III's Wall

Nietzsche could not bring himself to the point of becoming an idealist, for whom there is no world outside the articulations of the mind. Nor could he quite become a phenomenalist, believing that whatever is finally meaningful can be expressed in terms of our own (sense) experience. He could not do this because he felt, and not so differently from either Kant or Spinoza, that there was a world which remained over, tossing blackly like the sea, chaotic to our distinctions and perhaps to all distinctions, but there nevertheless. - A.C. Danto