Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.
Arthur SchopenhauerWill power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is most important to allow the brain the full measure of sleep which is required to restore it; for sleep is to a man's whole nature what winding up is to a clock.
Arthur Schopenhauer(Politeness is) a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur SchopenhauerWithout books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.
Arthur Schopenhauer