A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.
Arthur SchopenhauerReading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
Arthur SchopenhauerI love looking at famous people. Because of the way they look. Because of the way photography makes them look famous.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.
Arthur SchopenhauerFor the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.
Arthur SchopenhauerThe greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life; because that is the only reality, all else being merely the play of thought. On the other hand, such a course might just as well be called the greatest folly: for that which in the next moment exists no more, and vanishes utterly, like a dream, can never be worth a serious effort.
Arthur Schopenhauer