As a reader I
would like to buy with each book --
reading time as well.
Ik lees graag romans	Als Leser möchte
en bij elk boek zou ik graag --	ich mir mit jedem Buch auch --
ook leestijd kopen.	Lesezeit kaufen.

Poem H3811
Amsterdam, 2023-05-05
Appendices and Omissions - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life (Arthur Schopenhauer) - 1851
"Parerga und Paralipomena - Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit":
"Buying books would be a fine thing, if you could buy the time to read them as well, but buying books is often confused with acquiring their content."
Collection: Stall
Keywords: Knowledge: gain, Time: lifetime 
Tribute to: Schopenhauer, Arthur 

We humans can want
a lot, but of our will we --
are not the master.
Mensen kunnen veel	Die Menschen können
willen, maar over hun wil --	viel wollen, sind aber nicht --
zijn ze niet de baas.	Herr ihres Willens.

Poem H5375
Amsterdam, 2025-04-13
Arthur Schopenhauer - 1841
Arthur Schopenhauer on human will, in short from a passage in 'Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik' (1841): 'Der Mensch kann wohl [/zwar] tun, was er will, aber [er kann] nicht wollen, was er will' ('A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants')
Collection: Willegos
Keyword: Will: subconscious 
Tribute to: Schopenhauer, Arthur