Drawing on a strong classical and philosophical culture and using his keen critical sense, Schopenhauer highlights some of the flaws of the intellectual life of his time and points out the attitudes that could remedy them. Some reflections on reading, books, language and the craft of writing that are still relevant in the world today. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), disciple of Kant and unorthodox figure in the philosophical panorama of the nineteenth century, was not during his life much appreciated by the academic world, but instead exerted a very remarkable influence in a great number of writers, musicians and artists from all over Europe who attest to the fecundity of their ideas. Schopenhauer, in his irrationalist and pessimistic philosophy, was one of the first European intellectuals to adopt ideas from Eastern philosophies; was, in this as in other aspects, a precursor. One of his works of more success was Parerga und Paralipomena (1851), miscellaneous work that contains essays on very diverse subjects. The volume that we present brings together several works of literary, linguistic and cultural themes that reflect the philosopher's preoccupations in this field: soft texts, written with an agile and elegant style, with remarkable doses of irony and humor, sometimes provocative in his strident nonconformity , and always interesting and rich in ideas and suggestions.