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Chapter 1 Pain and Pleasure

001 Don't Waste the Present
002 Don't Buy Pleasure with Pain
003 A pain-free life is a happy life.
004 Abandonment is an act that denies the world order.
005 If you're stuck in the past, there's no tomorrow.
006 Pain diminishes over time
007 Everything Changes
008 Face misfortune calmly
009 When you're having a hard time, go outside and get some light.
010 When life is shaken, stand before the great nature.
011 Don't ignore my little signals
012 There is no end to suffering.
013 All humans are slaves to time.
014 Humans are just parts of this world.
015 All humans are both protagonists of tragedy and clowns of comedy.
016 When life is empty, you fall into superstition.
017 Life is fortunate to be short.
018 The End of Vanity Is Despair
019 This world writes you off
020 Why You Can't Be Happy Forever
021 Fear luck
022 Lose it in advance
023 He who has no desires is free.

Chapter 2: Aging and Death

024 Life is a constant escaping of death.
025 What you see as a child lasts a lifetime.
026 Misfortune doesn't love you in particular.
027 Boredom is the privilege of youth.
028 How to Waste Your Youth
029 Youth does not know itself
030 Don't complain
031 There is no life that blooms by chance.
032 Youth is hot, middle age is ripe, and old age is peaceful.
033 If you don't expect anything, you'll be at peace.
034 There is no special happiness
035 Even if your body ages, your mind should not age.
036 Even when the sparkle fades, it changes its appearance.
037 Don't show off your age
038 Things You Only Get at the End of Life
039 Death is not the end, it is a return.
040 Life begins with love and ends with death.
041 Death is another way of life
042 There is no eternal stage or mask.

Chapter 3: Me and Others

043 Don't waste your life on others.
044 The moment you lower your eye level, you fall.
045 Kindness Returns as Weakness
046 Friendship with a dog is true friendship.
047 People wait for other people's misfortune.
048 Intellectual superiority creates enemies.
049 Misfortune exchanges friends for enemies.
050 The worst insult is to be told you have a good personality.
051 Respond to rude questions with lies.
052 Information is a weakness
053 A soliloquy reveals everything
054 Think of it as a comedy
055 Don't forget other people's shortcomings
056 Don't miss the moment the mask comes off
057 People who don't know how to cry are dangerous.
058 Those who mistreat animals have their true nature clearly revealed.
059 Look again at those who ignore those in need.
060 Habits are a reflection of a person's level.
061 You can tell your personality by looking at your body type.
062 Children have no obligations to their parents.
063 Humans can never be rewritten

Chapter 4: Habits and Success

064 Move now
065 The Diary is a Teacher
066 A person who doesn't know how to look in the mirror is ugly.
067 Be me, not someone else
068 If you exercise every day, you will die early.
069 Muscles come alive when pushed, but nerves die when pushed.
070 If you reduce sleep, your life will also be reduced.
071 Effort cannot overcome fate.
072 There are times when waiting is better.
073 Life is a war
074 Never let go of money once you have it.
075 Don't laugh at me yesterday
076 What is the right regret?
077 Touch the desire
078 Catch the daily warnings
079 Personality is innate
080 Humans live two lives
081 If you don't know yourself, life is in vain.
082 Don't follow

Chapter 5 Selfishness and Morality

083 One person destroys the whole world
084 Selfishness has a price.
085 Misconduct against another is tantamount to murder.
086 Possession is an effort
087 Even the manager is lying.
088 Lying is worse than violence
089 Lies Destroy Society
090 Self-defense
091 Lies are followed by lies
092 The law is cold
093 The illusion that law is morality
094 The law cannot change people.
095 The law is the minimum standard
096 Punishment protects the future
097 Public opinion is cruel but accurate.
098 The vengeance of the righteous is the final conscience of humanity.
099 The face of a villain is different.
100 The road to becoming a villain is easy
101 You can't change people with lectures or sermons.
102 Do not do good deeds in hope of something.
103 Don't differentiate between yourself and others.
104 If you have received a legacy, don't forget society.
105 Consideration for others and true morality
106 A selfish person is anxious at every moment.
107 Love that cannot be sacrificed is simply selfishness.
108 True ethics can be known without learning.
109 Etiquette is hypocritical, but necessary.
110 Jealousy makes society sick
111 Egoists Corrupt Morality
112 The wicked are pure
113 Right and wrong cannot be measured with a ruler.
114 Traitors should not be forgiven
115 Good deeds sometimes become a sword.
116 Don't confuse good deeds with trade.
117 Things to Remember When Pessimism Beckons
118 Religion is weak
119 The Secret to Happiness of the Naturally Rich
120 A person who appears when others are suffering
121 Fake Conscience

Chapter 6: Truth and Art

122 Truth triumphs
123 Knowledge never disappears
124 Jokes are the most intelligent sword that exposes human weaknesses.
125 Plagiarism is more heinous than simple theft.
126 The hypocrisy and opportunism of philosophers are the most disgusting betrayals.
127 Be judged by your essence, not by your illusions.
128 Logic and reason aren't everything
129 Don't pretend to be the lord of all creation.
130 Nature cannot be defeated
131 Not a single day of life is mine
132 Reason interferes with intuition.
133 Reason analyzes life, but art makes life felt.
134 If you don't know art, you don't deserve to be human.
135 Great works are always uncomfortable.
136 Genius is not self-absorbed.
137 Only in nature can true freedom be found.
138 Genius is never satisfied.
139 You cannot know the world without knowing metaphors.
140 Ordinary people and geniuses have different eyes.
141 Truth is a weapon, error is a trap.

Chapter 7: Argument and Speaking

142 The more important the words, the colder they should be.
143 Inflate your argument cleverly
Changing just one word can win an argument.
145 Expand the opponent's argument to all situations.
146 Hide the conclusion and scatter only the premises.
147 Build truth upon the lies of others
148 Don't prove the conclusion, hide it in the premise.
149 If you want to win, ask questions.
150 If you want to win, make your opponent angry.
151 The more dizzying the question, the better
152 If the other person only objects, ask the opposite question.
153 Wrap special cases in general truths
154 He who grasps the language first dominates the debate.
155 Force your opponent into extreme choices
156 In a debate, the one with the loudest voice wins.
157 Confuse your opponent with strange and bizarre propositions.
158 If you are pushed back in logic, attack your opponent.
159 Win by interpretation, not meaning
160 If the odds are against you, destroy the board itself.
If you're pushed back on the 161st point, run away to a bigger question.
162 Conclusion: Don't ask, just tell.
163 When confronting sophistry, abandon your dignity.
164 Ask for proof
165 Adding fuel to the fire
166 Twist the argument
167 A mad dog has no enemies
168 One strong counterexample is enough
169 Give back what you received
170 Hit the emotional trigger
171 The audience's laughter is cruel.
Earn 172 hours
173 Authority is the greatest deception
174 Admit my foolishness
175 Cover the Shadow of Hatred
176 Take reality hostage
177 Never miss the silence of your opponent.
178 Stimulate the audience's interests
179 Overwhelm your opponent with difficulty.
If even one piece of evidence falls apart, the whole thing falls apart.

If you don't write Schopenhauer yourself,
Don't say you know Schopenhauer

『The First Translation of Schopenhauer's Words』, which has been receiving great attention from readers since its publication, has been reorganized and published as 『The First Translation of Schopenhauer's Words Manuscript Collection』.
The book was designed to allow readers of 『The First Translation of Schopenhauer's Words』 to think and feel more deeply by writing his sentences themselves, and to traverse and pass through Schopenhauer's thoughts.
Even sentences that seem light when read come to life with a completely different weight when they pass through your hands.
Schopenhauer does not turn away from the suffering of life.
We don't even wrap reality in a vain hope.
His sentences, which confront the essence of human existence in its raw form, fully capture the character and attitude of a philosopher.
Short but sharp, cynical but deep.

As the reader follows Schopenhauer's sentences, he or she finds himself deeply immersed in his thoughts.
Words and sentences that seemed cynical and sharp hit me all over.
This contains Schopenhauer's attitude of not turning away from the pain despite the immense suffering that cannot be expressed in words.
Copying his sentences is not a simple repetition, but, like Schopenhauer, it is a way for me to endure the pain of my life and a process of realizing my life.

Schopenhauer's sentences were more truthful than anyone else's.
The experience of writing directly in your heart

This book contains key sentences from his major works, including “The World as Will and Representation,” “The Record and the Possession,” “On the Will in Nature,” and “On the Foundations of Morality,” all selected and put into a single volume.
The abridged content is reorganized into seven topics and 180 passages for all of us who must live our lives at least once: 'Pain and Pleasure', 'Aging and Death', 'Me and Others', 'Habits and Success', 'Selfishness and Morality', 'Truth and Art', and 'Debate and the Art of Speaking'.
First, he placed his philosophical insight that life is suffering at the forefront, and from this realization, he expanded it to other areas of life.
It made us reflect on all aspects of life, including aging, relationships, success, morality, and truth, and ask ourselves, 'How should we live?' and 'What constitutes a good life?'
I have placed Schopenhauer's sentences only as much as necessary and in the most appropriate places.
Listening directly to the philosopher's voice, transcribing it, and engraving it in one's heart.
Once you face the essence of what Schopenhauer is talking about, you will no longer need any previous comfort or advice.

Honest and sharp,
Schopenhauer, sharp but warm

We often pretend not to know.
They say things that won't get better will get better, and they say things that aren't okay are okay.
Even though they know it is a lie and pretense, they pretend to be deceived, and even though they know it is wrong, they pretend not to see it.
It cannot be said that 'looking away' is necessarily a bad thing.
Because the truth always hurts most of the time.
Humans live by relying on sweet lies to avoid suffering.
Even emotional essays and self-help books that preach positivity ultimately stem from that kind of psychology.
But Schopenhauer is different.
He is called the 'philosopher of pain' and he does not lie or turn a blind eye to pain.
He doesn't offer a single line of comfort.
He asserts that humans cannot help but suffer as long as they live, and even goes so far as to say, “Life is fortunate because it is short.”
In this way, his sentences are firm, direct, and sometimes ruthless.
But because it is such a sentence, it is even more true.
His awareness of his own suffering, from which even he himself was not spared, is vividly conveyed beyond the sentences.
Ironically, we feel a deeper sense of comfort in front of it.

Schopenhauer's thoughts as my thoughts
The editor of this book says:

“If you are willing to endure the discomfort that Schopenhauer’s honesty brings, I believe you will find true comfort and courage in it that will make life affirming.”

As I write each sentence, Schopenhauer's philosophy becomes my thoughts.
『The First Translation of Schopenhauer's Manuscripts』 is the only philosophy book recommended to readers who desire true thought and reflection.
This will be the first step toward overcoming the fatigue of the flood of emotional essays and self-help books and accepting life as it is.