Thoughts

This collection consists of separate chapters from the second volume of the collection "Parerga und Paralipomena" ("Supplements and Omissions", 1851) by the outstanding German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860). These are systematically presented reflections on various subjects: on physiognomy - the art of determining a person's inner essence by their face - and women, on knowledge and scholars, on the superiority of one's own thought over that of others, on genius, its fame, criticism, and approval of its creativity, as well as on suffering as the closest and immediate goal of human existence.