


They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded by them by the inexperienced but this only because they are near. Planets and wandering stars last a much longer time. You look up and cry “There!” and it is gone forever. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and MaximsĬontext: Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. 2 "The Art of Literature" as translated in Essays and Aphorisms (1970), as translated by R. Arthur Schopenhauer, book Parerga and Paralipomena „Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars.“
