#Parerga and Paralipomena

[funeral]

You as an individual end at your death; but the individual is not your true and ultimate essence, but rather a mere manifestation thereof. It is not the thing-in-itself, but only its phenomenon which manifests itself in the form of time and accordingly has a beginning and an end. On the other hand, your true essence-in-itself does not know either time, beginning, end, or the limits of a given individuality; and so it cannot be excluded from any individuality, but exists in each and all. Therefore, in the first sense, you become nothing through your death; in the second, you are and remain everything.

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena Vol. II

[philosophybits]

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

Arthur Schopenhauer, "Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real", Parerga and Paralipomena

[philosophybitmaps]

[quotessentially]

From Arthur Schopenhauer’s “On Books and Reading” in Parerga and Paralipomena

[rwpohl]

parerga und paralipomena, arthur schopenhauer 1851

[maryflorlovyblog]

"By wisdom I mean the art of making life as pleasant and happy as possible."

Arthur Schopenhauer SCHOPENHAEUR, A., Parerga and Paralipomena

[exhaled-spirals]

— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2

[somehow---here]

I veri grandi spiriti costruiscono, come le aquile, i loro nidi a grandi altezze, nella solitudine. In secondo luogo si può comprendere di qui, come le persone di eguale sentire si ritrovino tanto rapidamente, quasi fossero attratte magneticamente l’una verso l’altra: le anime affini si salutano di lontano.

Arthur Schopenhauer, da “Parerga e Paralipomena"

[aorish]

The history of ancient philosophy is kinda like if somebody a hundred years from now decided that it made more sense if you told a story where Nietzsche studied under Marx, who studied under Hegel. And then someone else a hundred years after that decided that actually they think Nietzsche studied under Schopenhauer, who studied under Kant. and then other than reports of those two lists, the only other evidence you have for relative dating is Phenomenology of Spirit, Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Communist Manifesto, and a Swedish translation of Hegel's Encyclopedia Logic. Also what *might* be an English paraphrase of Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena which is appended to a collection of summaries of the acts in a lost allegorical drama mysteriously called "Neon Genesis Evangelion"

[funeral]

Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays

[vish-the-wanderer]

CoTE opening quotes

a list of the opening quotes in classroom of the elite:

What is evil?- Whatever springs from weakness. -F W Nietzsche, The Antichrist It takes great talent and skill to conceal one's talent and skill. -La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with one another. -Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves. -La Rochefoucauld, Reflections or Sentences and Moral Maxims Hell is other people. -Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit There are two kinds of lies; one concerns an accomplished fact, the other concerns a future duty. -Jean Jacques Rousseau, Emile or on Education Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. -Jean de La Fontaine, Fables Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. -Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno Man is condemned to be free. -Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism Every man has in himself the most dangerous traitor of all. -Kierkegaard, Works of Love What people commonly call fate is their own stupidity. -Schopenhauer, Philosophical Writings Genius lives only one story above madness. -Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena Remember to keep a clear head in difficult times. -Horace, Odes (Carmina) There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. -Franz Kafka, The Zurau Aphorisms The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. -Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method The material has to be created. -Florence Nightingale, subsidiary notes (female nursing into military hospitals in peace and war) Every failure is a step to success. -William Whewell, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England Adversity is the first path to truth. -G G Byron Don Juan To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions;  both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -H Poincare, Science and Hypothesis The wound is at her heart. -Vergil, Aeneid If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. -Anonymous, Analects People, often deceived by an illusive good, desire their own ruin. -Niccolo Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave. -J W V Goethe, Zahme Xenien Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. -Horace, Odes (Carmina) The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself. -F W Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra

lmk if you'd like explanations as to how these epigraphs relate to the story

[hernestine]

Il vangelo moralizza mirabilmente bene su coloro che scorgono la pagliuzza nell'occhio del vicino, e che non vedono la trave nel proprio; ma la natura dell'occhio non gli permette di guardare che al di fuori ed esso non può quindi veder sè medesimo; per questo, notare e biasimare i difetti degli altri è un mezzo opportunissimo per farci sentire i nostri. Ci occorre uno specchio per correggerci.

A. Schopenhauer, Parerga e paralipomena

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[philosophors]

“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Parerga and Paralipomena”

[dramatik-buluntular]

"Gerçeği ve hakiki olanı dile getiren herkes; çürümüşlüğün, çıkarın, kıskançlığın ve anlayışsızlığın ittifakına karşı müthiş bir savaş vermek zorundadır."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga ve Paralipomena

[t-annhauser]

È incredibile come andiate sempre a preferire i post di cui mi importa meno, anzi, che mi vergogno pure di avere scritto, e quelli che invece reputo importanti me li lasciate languire in un angolo come carta da cesso, che almeno lei è utilissima e quando manca è una tragedia. Schopenhauer aveva scritto il suo Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung credendolo una pietra miliare del pensiero umano e l'editore mandò al macero le copie, quando ormai stufo di tutto si era deciso di scrivere sciocchezze, ecco che raggiunge il successo con Parerga e Paralipomena, dove parla pure di spiritismo. Devo parlare di spiritismo pure io?