Arthur Schopenhauer

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as read more

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight read more

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.