The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)

well. * * * * * The Aristotelian principle of keeping the mean

race, which all physical and historical data confirm as

A genius has a double intellect, one for himself and the service of his will; the other for the world, of which he becomes the mirror, in virtue of his purely objective attitude towards it.

Xenophon's remark: he must be a wise man who knows what is wise.

A man of learning is a man who has learned a great deal; a man of genius, one from whom we learn something which the genius has learned from nobody.

it is a suspicious sign if a reputation comes quickly; for an application of the laws of homogeneity will show that such a reputation is nothing but the direct applause of the multitude.

ON GENIUS.

And it is an obvious fact, which cannot be called in question, that the principal element in a man's well-being,--indeed, in the whole tenor of his existence,--is what he is made of, his inner constitution.

For when any new and wide-reaching truth comes into the world--and if it is new, it must be paradoxical--an obstinate stand will be made against it as long as possible; nay, people will continue to deny it even after they slacken their opposition and are almost convinced of its truth. Meanwhile it goes on quietly working its way, and, like an acid,