Sublime

Hobbes observes,[1] all mental pleasure consists in being able to compare oneself with others to one's own advantage.

Arthur Schopenhauer in his aptly titled Studies in Pessimism: “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

In the third place, there are those who have thought before they begin to write. They write solely because they have thought; and they are rare.

On the other hand, it is on form that we are dependent, where the matter is accessible to every one or very well known; and it is what has been thought about the matter that will give any value to the achievement; it will only be an eminent man who will be able to write anything that is worth reading. For the others will only think what is possible

No man has ever felt perfectly happy in the present; if he had it would have intoxicated him.

It is only the writer who takes the material on which he writes direct out of his own head that is worth reading. Book manufacturers, compilers, and the ordinary history writers, and others like them, take their material straight out of books; it passes into their fingers without its having paid transit duty or undergone inspection when it was in t

well. * * * * * The Aristotelian principle of keeping the mean

The true subject of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy is the will; the object of his philosophy is the elevation of the mind to the point where it is capable of controlling the will.