ON CRITICISM
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The following brief remarks on the critical faculty are chiefly intended to show that, for the most part, there is no such thing. It is a rara avis; almost as rare, indeed, as the phoenix, which appears only once in five hundred years.
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ON THINKING FOR ONESELF
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. In the same way, a man may have a great mass of knowledge, but if he has not worked it up by thinking it over for hims...
ON MEN OF LEARNING
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
When one sees the number and variety of institutions which exist for the purposes of education, and the vast throng of scholars and masters, one might fancy the human race to be very much concerned about truth and wisdom. But here, ...
ON THE STUDY OF LATIN
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
The abolition of Latin as the universal language of learned men, together with the rise of that provincialism which attaches to national literatures, has been a real misfortune for the cause of knowledge in Europe. For it was chi...
ON STYLE
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Style is the physiognomy of the mind, and a safer index to character than the face. To imitate another man's style is like wearing a mask, which, be it never so fine, is not long in arousing disgust and abhorrence, because it is lifeless; so that e...
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