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 apply to every chapter in the volume. The first essay is, in the main, a rendering of the philosopher's remarks under the heading of Nachtre zur Lehre vom Leiden der Welt, together with certain parts of another section entitled Nachtre zur Lehre von der Bejahung und Verneinung des Willens zum Leben. Such omissions as I have made are directed chiefly by the desire to avoid repeating arguments already familiar to readers...
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 origina...
The volume now before the reader is a tardy addition to a series in which I have endeavoured to present Schopenhauer's minor writings in an adequate form. Its contents are drawn entirely from his posthumous papers. A selection of them was given to the world some three of four years after his death by his friend and literary executor, Julius Frauenstet, who for this and other offices of piety, has received less recognition than he deserves.
The volume now before the reader is a tardy addition to a series in which I have endeavoured to present Schopenhauer's minor writings in an adequate f...
When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription "Arthur Schopenhauer," without even the date of his birth or death. Schopenhauer, the pessimist, had a sufficiently optimistic conviction that his message to the world would ultimately be listened to-a conviction that never failed him during a lifetime of disappointments, of neglect in quarters where perhaps he would have most cherished appreciation; a conviction that only showed some signs of being justified a few...
When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, "Anywhere; they will find me;" and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort ...
Et, sans contredit, pour le bien-etre de l'individu, meme pour toute sa maniere d'etre, le principal est evidemment ce qui se trouve ou se produit en lui. C'est la, en effet, que reside immediatement son bien-etre ou son malaise; c'est sous cette forme, en definitive, que se manifeste tout d'abord le resultat de sa sensibilite, de sa volonte et de sa pensee; tout ce qui se trouve en dehors n'a qu'une influence indirecte. Aussi les memes circonstances, les memes evenements exterieurs, affectent-ils chaque individu tout differemment, et, quoique places dans un meme milieu, chacun vit dans un...
Et, sans contredit, pour le bien-etre de l'individu, meme pour toute sa maniere d'etre, le principal est evidemment ce qui se trouve ou se produit en ...
