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Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what

Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Reflection, Roots, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Giving, Style, Currency

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Giving, Pessimism, Reason
Arthur, Schopenhauer (2016). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.55, Aegitas

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Loneliness, Eye, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.59, Publishdrive

Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every remeeting a foretaste of the resurrection. That is why even people who are indifferent to each other rejoice so much if they meet again after twenty or thirty years of separation.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Years, People, Giving

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Errors, Giving, Wish
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The World As Will And Idea: 3 vols in 1 [unabridged]”, p.59, Kshetra Books

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

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

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Artist, Men, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.260, Courier Corporation

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Writing, Opposites, Giving
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Art of Literature: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.18, 谷月社

What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Giving, Sublime, World
Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.86, Publishdrive

Night gives a black look to everything, whatever it may be.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Night, Giving, Black
Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims”, p.68, Arthur Schopenhauer

There is only one healing force, and that is nature; in pills and ointments there is none. At most they can give the healing force of nature a hint about where there is something for it to do.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Healing, Giving, Pills
"Neue Paralipomena (New Paralipomena)". Essay by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1893.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Arthur Schopenhauer
Birthday, Years, Giving

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