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Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading, Mean, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hate, Men, Energy
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.24, 谷月社

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Hands, Soul
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.15, Penguin UK

The ordinary method of education is to imprint ideas and opinions, in the strict sense of the word, prejudices, on the mind of the child, before it has had any but a very few particular observations. It is thus that he afterwards comes to view the world and gather experience through the medium of those ready-made ideas, rather than to let his ideas be formed for him out of his own experience of life, as they ought to be.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Views, Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Inspirational, Truth, Lying
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.475, Simon and Schuster

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 many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading, Book, Mean
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Solitude, Personal Values
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.36, Arthur Schopenhauer

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
People, Results, Contact
"Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (The Wisdom of Life)". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders, 1851.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Book, Vedas, India

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Mean, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays”, Cosimo, Inc.

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !

Arthur Schopenhauer
Latin, Book, Soul

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Law, Simplicity
Arthur Schopenhauer “The Selected Works of Arthur Schopenhauer”, Library of Alexandria

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Mystery, Pessimism, Inexplicable
"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 1, § 1, 2007.

Unrest is the mark of existence.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Unrest, Mark, Existence
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

Shame on such a morality that is worthy of pariahs, and that fails to recognize the eternal essence that exists in every living thing, and shines forth with inscrutable significance from all eyes that see the sun!

Arthur Schopenhauer
Life, Eye, Equality

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Wish, Begets

We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hands, Wish, Desire
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.31, 谷月社

A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the production of its works is not as easy to name

Arthur Schopenhauer
Spring, Moving, Men
Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “The Art of Literature”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Feet, Air, Support
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.172, Courier Corporation

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Desire, Limits, Impossible
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.346, Oxford University Press

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Suffering, Needs, Free Will

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Appreciation, Pride, Oneself
"Parerga and Paralipomena: A Collection of Philosophical Essays".

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Doe, Importance
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.21, 谷月社

There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?

Arthur Schopenhauer
Sacrifice, London, Monogamy

Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure

Arthur Schopenhauer
Happiness, Pleasure, Repetition
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - The Wisdom of Life (illustrated)”, p.25, Full Moon Publications

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