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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

Arthur Schopenhauer

Stupid, Reading, Thinking

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Reading, Thinking

Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.494, Oxford University Press

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading, Trouble, Hours

The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Art, Book, Reading

Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Funny, Book, Reading

"Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

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

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