This book is a collection of 172 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Arthur Schopenhauer:"Life without pain has no meaning.""The world is my idea.""Truth is most beautiful undraped.""Truth is no prostitute that throws herself away upon those who do not desire her; she is rather so coy a beauty that he who sacrifices everything to her cannot even then be sure of her favor.""Each day is a little life.""After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.""Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.""We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness."