Цитаты из книги автора Arthur Schopenhauer The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc

The study of physiognomy is one of the chief means of a knowledge of mankind

An odor affects us only when we first come in contact with it, and the first glass of wine is the one which gives us its true taste: in the same way, it is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression

This is why beauty is so captivating: it is a fundamental thought of nature: whereas the individual is only a by-thought, a corollary.

the tongue tells the thought of one man only, whereas the face expresses a thought of nature itself

make a bid for fame in either capacity

in the last resort

Sie trägt zur Welt ihn, und er schaut entsetzt
In ihrer Gräu'l chaotische Verwirrung,
In ihres Tobens wilde Raserei,
In ihres Treibens nie geheilte Thorheit,
In ihrer Quaalen nie gestillten Schmerz;
Entsetzt: doch strahlet Rub' and Zuversicht
Und Siegesglanz sein Aug', verkündigend
Schon der Erlösung ewige gewissheit.

Madonna di San Sisto

The tenor of it is to show that

in regard to truth and error, they differ