Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A book can never be anything more than the impress of its author's thoughts; and the value of these will lie either in the matter about which he has thought, or in the form which his thoughts take, in other words, what it is that he has thought about it.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

Arthur Schopenhauer

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.

Arthur Schopenhauer