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Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Library, Research, Management
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.491, Oxford University Press

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, First Impression, Encounters
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others it is our follies and vices that we behold.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Exercise, Men, Vices
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. This is an error of the intellect as inevitable as that error of the eye which lets you fancy that on the horizon heaven and earth meet.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Eye, Men, Errors
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Suffering of the World”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Pessimism, Stubbornness
Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Brain, Body, May
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.19, Cosimo Classics

A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Giving, Watches
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.450, Oxford University Press

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Moving, Hands, Genius
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “Essays and Aphorisms”, p.119, Penguin UK

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Men, Errors, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.14, 谷月社

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Positive, Pain, Philosophical
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.7, Full Moon Publications

History is the long, difficult and confused dream of Mankind.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Dream, Confused, Long

All the cruelty and torment of which the world is full is in fact merely the necessary result of the totality of the forms under which the will to live is objectified.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Facts, World, Ethics
Arthur Schopenhauer (2004). “On the Suffering of the World”, p.35, Penguin UK

In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on his shoulders.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Strong, Men, Two
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.209, Courier Corporation

Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Past, Reality, Littles
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellectual, Connections, Passionate

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
World, Death Penalty, Hell
"The World as Will and Idea".

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Children, Play, Waiting
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Confidence, Men, Clothes

The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Not Giving Up, Never Giving Up

There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosophical, Pages, Hegel
"Schopenhauer: A Biography" by David E. Cartwright, Cambridge University Press, (p. 177), March 29, 2010.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Beautiful, Art, Honesty
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays”, p.29, 谷月社

Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Time, Men, Thinking
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.88, Publishdrive

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Art, Profound, Answers

Wir tappen im Labyrinth unsers Lebenswandels und im Dunkel unserer Forschungen umher: helleAugenblicke erleuchten dabei wie Blitze unsernWeg. We grope about in the labyrinth of our life and in the obscurity of our investigations; bright moments illuminate our path like flashes of lightning.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Labyrinth, Lightning, Obscurity
1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.15 (translated by E F J Payne).

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Hands, Conviction, Genuine
"Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer translated by T. Bailey Saunders (Volume 2, Chapter 24, § 324), 1851.

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