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Thinking Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
- The little incidents and accidents of every day fill us with emotion, anxiety, annoyance, passion, as long as they are close to us, when they…
- A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his…
- True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can…
- Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
- In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast…
- We may divide thinkers into those who think for themselves and those who think through others. The latter are the rule and the former the…
- I observed once to Goethe that when a friend is with us we do not think the same of him as when he is away.…
- Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.
- Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
- ... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
- If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read…
- 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…
- Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that…
- The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to…
- The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
- 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…
- 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 others,…
- A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his…
- Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
- Man should think like few do and talk like the many others.
- Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of one's own
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