If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid
Arthur SchopenhauerThe mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world
Arthur Schopenhauer