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Arthur Schopenhauer quotes about thinking

Deutsch Philosopher February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860

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The actual life of a thought lasts only until it reaches the point of speech...As soon as our thinking has found words it ceases to be sincere...When it begins to exist in others it ceases to live in us, just as the child severs itself from its mother when it enters into its own existence. Arthur Schopenhauer
The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly harmonised; it is true to life. On the other hand, the intellectual attainments of the mere man of learning are like a large palette, full of all sorts of colours, which at most are systematically arranged, but devoid of harmony, connection and meaning. Arthur Schopenhauer
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting... Arthur Schopenhauer
It may sometimes happen that a truth, an insight, which you have slowly and laboriously puzzled out by thinking for yourself could have easily have been found already written in a book: but it is a hundred times more valuable if you have arrived at it by thinking for yourself. For only then will it enter your thought system as an integral part and living member, be perfectly and firmly consistent with it and in accord with all its other consequences and conclusions, bear the hue, colour and... Arthur Schopenhauer
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer) Arthur Schopenhauer
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. Arthur Schopenhauer
If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their..."
Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for..."
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think. Arthur Schopenhauer
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own."
Reading is thinking with someone else's head instead of ones own. Arthur Schopenhauer
Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees. Arthur Schopenhauer
there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself? Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack."
We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack. Arthur Schopenhauer

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