Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes & Quotations

Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes

» Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

» In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

» The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

» A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

» Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

» 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 books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

» Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

» To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

» 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 ''erected in the sea of time.'' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.

» In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

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