Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.
Arthur SchopenhauerTo become reconciled to a friend with whom you have broken, is a form of weakness; and you pay the penalty of it when he takes the first opportunity of doing precisely the very thing which brought about the breach.
Arthur SchopenhauerVedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.
Arthur SchopenhauerAs the strata of the earth preserve in succession the living creatures of past epochs, so the shelves of libraries preserve in succession the errors of the past and their expositions, which like the former were very lively and made a great commotion in their own age but now stand petrified and stiff in a place where only the literary palaeontologist regards them.
Arthur Schopenhauer