The little honesty that exists among authors is discernible in the unconscionable way they misquote from the writings of others. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The general history of art and literature shows that the highest achievements of the human mind are, as a rule, not favourably… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Authors may be divided into falling stars, planets, and fixed stars: the first have a momentary effect; the second have a much… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Therefore books do not take the place of experience, because concepts always remain universal, and so do not reach down to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you;… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical needs of countless millions… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“However, for the man who studies to gain insight , books and studies are merely rungs of the ladder on which he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Authors can be divided into meteors, planets and fixed stars. The meteors produce a loud momentary effect; we look up, shout 'see… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes over… — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.” — arthur schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with ones own” — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Only that which is innate is genuine and will hold water; and every man who wants to achieve something, whether in practical… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In accordance with such zeal, by reducing the external world to a matter of faith, he wanted merely to open a little door for… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
That human life must be some kind of mistake is sufficiently proved by the simple observation that man is a compound of needs which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Imitation and custom are the spring of almost all human action. The cause of it is that men fight shy of all and any… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking at them, that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“[Materialism] seeks the primary and most simple state of matter, and then tries to develop all the others from it; ascending from mere mechanism,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“For the will, as that which is common to all, is for that reason also common: consequently, every vehement emergence of will is common,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Alles Urdenken geschieht in Bildern: darum ist die Phantasie ein so nothwendiges Werkzeug desselben, und werden phantasielose Köpfe nie etwas Großes leisten, - es… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
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