Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

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Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to t — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friend — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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 v — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process. In learning to write, the pupil goes ov — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the min — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to w — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentiall — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
What light is to the outer physical world intellect is to the inner world of consciousness. For intellect is related to — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms