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."