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Book Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred…
- Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
- The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of…
- Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
- To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers…
- If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy…
- A book can never be anything more than the impression of its author’s thoughts. The value of these thoughts lies either in the matter about…
- Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed…
- To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of…
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how…
- Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said…
- One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order…
- A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new…
- Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of…
- Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read…
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