Essays and Aphorisms (Classics)
ON READING AND BOOKS.
Arthur Schopenhauer • Works of Arthur Schopenhauer
It is only the man who writes absolutely for the sake of the subject that writes anything worth writing. What an inestimable advantage it would be, if, in every branch of literature, there existed only a few but excellent books!
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
it is quite certain that what a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Wisdom of Life
"Obit anus, obit onus" The
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
What a sad fate for a philosophy that even one of its occasional critics, Arthur Schopenhauer, would describe as “the highest point to which man can attain by the mere use of his faculty of reason.”