On Books and Writing by Schopenhauer

This is the first Aphorism Schopenhauer wrote "On Books and Writing":

"Writers can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The first produce a momentary effect: you gaze up, cry: 'Look!' - and then they vanish for ever. The second, the moving stars, endure for much longer. By virtue of their proximity they often shine more brightly than the fixed stars, which the ignorant mistake them for. But they too must soon vacate their place, they shine moreover only with a borrowed light, and their sphere of influence is limited to their own fellow travellers (their contemporaries). The third alone are unchanging, stand firm in the firmament, shine by their own light adninfluence all ages equally, in that their aspect does not alter when our point of view alters since they ahve no parallax. Unlike the others, they do not belong to one system (nation) alone: they belong to the Universe. But it is precisely because they are so high that their light usually takes so many years to reach the eyes of dwellers on earth."

There is no doubt that the works of Schopenhauer are the fixed stars . Some of our popular works in modern poetry are the planets. The many uproars of Post-modernism at best is a very bright meteor: soon man will find his ground again, and the meteors will be nothing but a footnote to history.