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 Read Quote
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots! Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. Arthur Schopenhauer Read Quote
