Consequently our world would be a nunc stans, if it were not that, as knowing subjects, we are also individuals, i.e., our perceptions come to us through the medium of a body, from the affections of which they proceed, and which is itself only concrete willing, objectivity of the will, and thus is an object among objects, and as such comes into the knowing consciousness in the only way in which an object can, through the forms of the principle of sufficient reason, and consequently already presupposes, and therefore brings in, time, and all other forms which that principle expresses.
baldin eta gu ezagutzaren subjektu gisa aldi berean banakoak ere ez bagina, gure begiespena gorputz batez bitartekotua ez balego, zeinaren afekzioetatik abiatzen baita, eta zeina nahi izate konkretua, nahimenaren objektitatea, horrela objektuen arteko objektu baita eta horrelakoa den heinean, kontzientzia ezagutzailean agertzen denean, hori arrazoiaren printzipioaren formatan bakarrik gerta daiteke, ondorioz denbora eta printzipio horrek adierazten dituen beste forma guztiak jadanik suposatu eta horren bitartez sartzen ditu.