The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism

The Essays here presented form a further selection from Schopenhauer's _Parerga_, brought together under a title which is not to be found in the original, and does not claim to...

And you cannot expect anything else of women if you consider that the most distinguished intellects among the whole sex have never managed to produce a single achievement in the...

There are many persons who are trained to be strictly honorable in regard to one particular matter, while they have little honor to boast of in anything else. Many a man, for in...

The ancients, moreover, were very far from regarding the matter in that light. Pliny says: _Life is not so desirable a thing as to be protracted at any cost. Whoever you are, yo...

In such cases there are really two different motives at work in us; the stronger but more distant of the two being the desire to stand the test and to have the decision given in...

There is nothing more certain than the general truth that it is the grievous _sin of the world_ which has produced the grievous _suffering of the world_. I am not referring here...

On the other hand, the memory should be specially taxed in youth, since it is then that it is strongest and most tenacious. But in choosing the things that should be committed t...

[Footnote 1: According to a notice issued by the Society for the Protection of Animals in Munich, the superfluous whipping and the cracking of whips were, in December, 1858, pos...