"In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most he...
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own.
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"Any book which is at all important should be re-read immediately.
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"Now this was possible only by a man determining himself entirely *rationally* according to concepts, not according to changing impressions and moods. ...
"The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehensi...
"NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for ...
"Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim. It is absurd to look upon the enormous amoun...
"What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only conceivable, but even preferable to its existence...
"In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-exist...
"We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it lies already in the nature o...
"It will generally be found that, as soon as the terrors of life reach the point at which they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to ...
"[I]n other words, we should live with due knowledge of the course of things in the world. For whenever a man in any way loses self-control, or is stru...
"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 nourish...
"Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.