Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• 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

  Stupid, Reading, Thinking

• To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Funny, Book, Reading

  "Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays".

• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Reading, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.494, Oxford University Press

• I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Trouble, Hours

• 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.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Time, Mistake, Book

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.51, Publishdrive

• In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Mind, Facts

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• 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 untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

• Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.35, Publishdrive

• Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reading, Thinking, Mere

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.492, Oxford University Press

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