Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only read more

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

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.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is read more

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can read more

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.