sentences:  It cannot "will" nothingness, for a will-to-nothingness is still a form of willing, and willing non-willing is a contradiction.Yet it is not impossible for the intellect to have such ideas as, according to Bahnsen, all ideas bred by the intellect are contradictory as the will's desires are irrational and eternally in conflict with themselves.This extremely pessimistic worldview ,which offers no escape for the subject, differentiates Bahnsen not only from Schopenhauer, but also from the rest of his pessimistic contemporaries (Frauenstädt, Mainländer, Hartmann).