there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves itto… — 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
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons;… — 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
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own. — 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
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. — 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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