Arnold Geulincx" and in particular the gloomy nostrum (frequently repeated by Beckett to inquisitive critics) (roughly: "Where you are worth nothing, there you should want nothing"). In the novel Molloy (1950), Beckett's eponymous character describes himself as "I who had loved the image of old Geulincx, dead young, who left me free, on the black boat of Ulysses, to crawl towards the East, along the deck". Geulincx is also mentioned in Beckett's short story "The End". A citation of Geulincx's method of appears in the "Third Essay" of Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals. A quotation from his Ethics (, roughly "In this world I can do nothing outside myself") is used as the epigraph to, and in a sense the title of, A.G. Mojtabai's novel Mundome (1974). Notes External links Arnold Geulincx Resource Site (archive.org) 1624 births 1669 deaths Belgian philosophers Philosophers of mind Old University of Leuven alumni Academic staff of the Old University of Leuven Academic staff of Leiden University Writers from Antwerp