The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.
Arthur SchopenhauerWe seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo desire immortality for the individual is really the same as wanting to perpetuate an error forever.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur SchopenhauerJust 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 nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer